Teddy and Carrots: Two Merchants of Newpaper Row

as not to be thought of on this d

y could to prevent the boy from Saranac from engaging in any business; and secondly, bec

ht need, or go hungry, and yet Skip Jellison would

stance from some of those boys whom Master Jellison had disciplined by the same me

d a paper, not only would the money-making be sadly

the two had taken leave of Teenie Massey, and were walking in the direction of the water-front. "But I don't see

ieving he had a thoroughly good plan in mind.

es

S'posin' you an' me go right off an' get a job on some farm. That w

n' a good time, you'd find you'd made a big mistake. I've had all the farmin' I want. A feller ne

in the city, 'less you have mo

nd he's goin' to have a place, an' buy it. After that he can 'low to have a store,

ake of his head. "I've tried as hard as any feller to get '

e done, an' p'rhaps then I'd be willin' to go out on a farm; but it'll b

where we can talk without Ski

rrots had but little difficulty, familiar as he

ould stow themselves snugly away without fear of being seen; and, entering one, Carrots proceeded

iscovery. "You've taken right hold to help me, jest the same's if we'd allers knowed each other, an' do

help you through this thing, 'cause it was a shame to let Skip Jelliso

d of this thing. We've got to straighten matters somehow. In the first

be two or three days bef

d out the pennies which he had kept carefully apart from h

n a problem in arithmetic, using a bit of smooth board as paper, and making the figures thereon with a v

uddy you could not have s

en folded em' inside, so's it wouldn't show. It don't pay to

to-day jest to help me along, an', of course, haven't earned a cent. Now, the best way will be to gi

eplied, in a tone of determination." It ain'

egun when I first saw you,

sterday to keep me, an' by night we'll have

papers, and Carrots quite as strongly refused to do anything of the kind; therefore the matte

with the air of a man of leisure, a

any, Carrots.

ha

n' money; but there's one of the very reasons why you ain't got a stand. Instead of hustlin' to make a nickel, you spend one buyin' cigarettes, or else waste

ed at Teddy

e himself smoking cigarettes, and was thoroughly be

e tryin' to be awful too good. I wish I had money enough to buy a glas

rots. You can't make me mad after all you've done; but wha

l these're gone; so s'posin' we talk 'bout how we're going inter business? Sk

it. We must 'tend to work th

n us, an' then we'll g

place in the town jest as good for p

f you should try down by South Ferry, or 'round here anywhere, everybody'd do their best to drive you out, same's Skip did. I b'long up

such things," said Teddy, thoughtfully. "Yo

so, jest the same. Now if a new feller come where I was work

s a new boy l

's you're doin'. When the others find out y

usiness the better. If we're goin' to have a

ush, an' by to-morrow Skip 'll be over his mad fit a little, most likely. He won't do anything

cquainted with the ways of the city; yet at the same time he was impatient b

friend some of the peculiarities of his associates,

go to the Newsboys' Lodging House, or else hire a room somewhere, if you want ter swell, an' th

you have a house? Do yo

ell, I can tell you, though we can't go home till after dark, 'cause I d

eply; but thought it advisabl

ur grub anywhere?" he

eein' 's how neither of us has had any breakfast, what do yo

d had neither supper nor breakfast, and a few moments la

the reach of Skip Jellison, walked up-town that Teddy might see as much of the city

and fro, Carrots conducted his friend to the residence in the rear of

t's got a place like this don't need to hire any roo

that you can't get here in the daytime. I reckon if they k

he previous evening's feast; and before he had finished this task a shrill whi

away once in a while. There won't be any room for thr

econds later the sound as of some one climbing over the fence told that Mas

one who had never seen him before would have understood there was something on his m

you? Ain't any of your

replied. "What made you thin

ook so-kind

me weighty question in his mind, and then, with the air

iend of yours, ain't I, even if I have sto

THE "COMMITT

, Teenie. What's

actin' jest square, so I w

ght?" Carrots as

and. Now, you see, I me

e I lived, did you?"

ake me for? But he had a g

rse'n he can with his tongue, I

u fellers out er the city, if he don't

ith a good bit of loafin', for we're not g

's awfu

He can boil over if he

d me to do somethin', an' I c

the host aske

on't g

you're givin' somet

ive, an' so he told me I'd got to take it. I couldn't help myself, Carrots, 'cause he hu

l right. Fish

gave it to Carrots, who, with the candle in his hand, op

ory is concerned, the important document was preserved by

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