River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-30
Atly NewsbOy-A Tale of Mod
IN Chivalry and Things.
BY DoEsTIcKS


BY DoEsIlokS.
MIGHT.
II was dreary aud stormy night,
And the rain in streams came down,
While hundreds OF soaked and wreiched folk
Were hurrying 10 Brooklyn town,
And a piping voice at the ferry fence
Cries shrilly out, Extry, tvs cents ~
THE HERO.
II was little newsboy chap,
Puny and weak and wee.
Not bigger than pint Of beer,
So very small was he
Yet at the ferry gate he stood,
10 earn his bread as best he good,
AaALLANT Knight coMETH TO TIE RESCUE,
Oh, then up stepped bigger boy,
-" Spikey,' Of thirteen years,
Who gave but glance at the unsold sheets,
And knew the cause OF the tears.
come, come. little Jacky, mustn't cry
lou shan't get stuck, for we both will try
THE COOP SAMARITAN APPEARETH ON THE SCENE
Up stepped Good Samaritan,
OF the modern Brooklyn breed
Come, tell me, thou newsboy bold,
Has Jacky such urgent need ?
For, be IL so, this deed Of thine
Is worthy the knights OF the olden time.p
HOW THE HERO WAS ATTIRfD.
He wore no vest, no shoes. no hat
The soantest bit OF shirt
The only coat this waif could boast
Was heavy coat Of dict.
Yet even in this crowd 50 dense
His cry was heard, Extry, two cents !"
THE HERO wILrETH,
The homeward-going crowd grew less,
And less disposed to buy;
Yet still to sell his printed wares
The child ceased not to try
Extry, two cents ~ in fearful tones
Still sobbed along the ferry.
Don't give 1t up" passer said,
" Yout bet won't sir, nary"
Fen as he spoke, DER cheeks so brown
The ready tears came rolling down.
THE HERos HOME STORY.
Yes, Jacky has sisters two or three,
An his mothers widde, yer honor,
Or as good as such-her man gets drunk,
And he always puts head on her.
So each OF the children, old o. young,
Must earn few pennies to get along"
THE BROOKLYN SAMARITAN LEvIETH ON HIS
FRIENDS.
Then the Brooklynite to his friends so gay
Cried, "Come to me and see
How much great good small cash may do
Now buy these extras @! me
For each with a ten.cent stamp you must part,
To send little Jaeiiy home joyous OF heart"
TUE HERDS THANKS TO HIS BENlFAcroR
Little Jacky came up, with the tears running
down,
A few simple words to say
thank you, gentlemen, every one,
For these ERE stamps to-day.
I'll take 'em home to mother and sis,
An they'll alters pray for you iellers for this
For sis, though she's humpbacked an not
very gay,
Is heavy, the minister says, on the pray
THE SEQUEL.
ow, these boys kept up their sobs and tears
I'LL their friends had crossed the ferry,
When they changed them quick into laughter
and jeers,
And were most uuaccountably merry.
And they kicked up their heels in the widest
of jigs,
Which they'd learned, / tear, from the min
strel nigs.
LITTLE JAcKY's HYPOCRISY.
Little Jacky, the tears still running down,
Though fear they were not of sorrow,
Cried, " Splkey, didn't % il BULGE
But I'll do il better tomorrow,
How they swallowed my mother and sisters
three,
anu lnelt ~ siuppeu over AZ poor lt'ie me-
HOPES FOR THE GLORIOUS FUTURE.
An Jack, while the flats do bite so sharp
As we've seen I'm do tonight,
Well have a coed show for plenty OF stamps,
II we play our lie game right
Plenty of coffee and cakes, dye see,
An alters the cash for the old BOweree."
THE HERO BEcETvETH HIS NEED OF PRAISE.
Yer done it big" said Spikey the bold,
''And jolly good lark i is,
And Wen try it on every day in tine week
Till somebody drops on the biz,
An tonight, my boy. we'll go an see
The bully new play at the old Boweree."