Joe's Luck; Or, Always Wide Awake
chance in ten of my succeeding, and yet I have succeeded. Everything has turned
dollar left over. This would be rather a small sum to start wit
the Bowery. It seemed to him a very lively street, and he was
en a stone from some quarter struck
havoc in bewilderment, when a stout German, the p
scal!" he exclaimed furiously.
oe had recover
lone!" he
laimed the angry man.
ar pretty quick, or
ak your windo
n. "First you break my window, then you tell
"but I tell you I didn't. I was standing here,
" said his captor, puffing with exc
, I
money for
around the chief actors in this s
oung scamp?" said a thin-vis
rowdies that go around doin' mischief. They come a
tall man with sandy hair, addressin
ays I broke
t? Did you
king in, when a stone came f
ssing himself to the German, "what reason have you
in front of it,
would have run away. Di
mine window,"
do so from a distance, and he wouldn't be l
plimentary remarks of the bystanders, who a minut
te. "Let go the boy's collar, or I shall advis
friend of his?"
y life," said the other, "but I
ust pay for
young friend here, who had no more to do with it than myself. I sy
ent a polic
e matter?"
broke-dat's wha
t?" asked th
standing outside
e caught you, have I? I've
ismay, found hims
in the city two
jail!" exclai
o march off poor Joe, when a
t boy!" said the sand
along, too, if
y; "and arrest the German for assault and bat
demanded the of
the new police commissioners,"
uicker change from
, sir," said the offic
didn't k
ly. "Without one word of inquiry into the circumstances, you wer
along, sir?" asked the
o his shop, trembling with alarm. With great di
uffered loss by the breaking of his window. As for you, officer, unless you
only Joe and his advo
dness," said Joe. "But for you I should
long just as I did. Are y
s,
to danger. There are many perils i
. I shall remem
s before the time of sailing
g on board a m
ot a ticket
oe, "a steerage ti
u get this?"
told
did you pa
y dol
ney, for it is a bogus tick
sinking under him. He realized that he had been outrageously swi