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Fauntleroy In Difficulties

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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A nuraber of passengers aboutto cross the bridge f rom Brooklyn witnessed an amusing scène the other day. : A gentleman who had just purchased a ticket, in pathering his change from the ticket seller's window let fall from Ihis hand a quantity of coins - cents, iniekels and dimes. They scattered in all directions over the muddy pavement. A little urchin of a newsboy, from iwhom the gentleman had bought a paper for which he had not yet paid, .went to the reecue of the truant coins. 'At almost the same moment another jlittle f ellow ciad in the familiar costume :of a little Lord Fauntleroy- leather leggings, gloves, long hair and all- hove in sight. He ivas accompanied by a fashionably attired lady, evidently his mother. Human nature is very strong in a boy, even a Lord Fauntleroy. Espying a dime the newcomer forgot the dignity of his exalted rank. He stooped down and with his diminutive hand picked irom the muddy pavement the coin, which he promptly pocketed. The tatterdemalion saw the act and made a grab for Fauntleroy, who clung to his mother's skirts. "Watcher doin' wid de gent's money?" he said. "Doncher know no better den to steal?" The mother of the little aristocrat was dreadfully shocked at seeing her ofïspring in the dirty hands of the newsbdy. She flew to the rescue. "Taka jour hands off my child," she said, "or 111 have you arrested, you young ■coundrel." "I ain't no scoundrel," said the gamin, dropping his hands and releasing the little lord. "Make yer kid give up de money," he continued. "He ain't got no right ter keep it." Little Fauntleroy was pleased enough to te released from the clutch of the two begrimed little hands of the newsboy. He gave up the money readily enough, and with his mother, who had brushed the dirt off the miniature boxcoat sleeves, he hastened on his way to New York to make a society cali. The newsboy watched the retreating forms contemptnously. "Say, boss," he said, returning to the gentleman, who had watched the affair with interest and yet unable to take any part in it, so rapidly had the entire scène been enacted. "Say, boss," contimu-d the boy, "dat young feller would 'a )v-kedyer money but fer me. Ain't yer going to give me de dime?" The gentleman tole! him he might keep the ïnoney. "T'anks," said the urchin. "I tell yer," he added, "Deez young Funtleroyz an' sailors wid long hair, dey makes me tired. I guess deyll steal sooner den a noosboy. I ain"t g-ot no use fer fellers like dat. Dey don't have do fun, an' my! how dey gets licked by us fellers, when we gets the chance. Dey gets licked too. if dey gets a spot on de close dey wears. Yer can bet I"d sooner be a noosboy nor a dude wid long hair wot gets licked fer nothin'." The gentleman continued his trip over the bridge. He has been debating since, the oceurrence, however, if there was not a great deal of truth in the boy's rade

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Ann Arbor Courier