The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-08

He stood and gazed with wistful face,
All child's longing in his eyes;
Then started, as touched his arm.
And turned in quicA. mechanic wise,
said q Paper sir World ! Herald Times p,
And brushed away freezing tear
That marked his cheek with frosty rimes.
How many have you? Never mind
Don't stop to count-I1l take them all;
And when You pass my office here.
With stock on hand, give me CALL
He thanked me with broad Scotch smile,
look half wondering and half glad,
fumbled for the proner change"
And said, " You seem little lad
a'To rough it in The streets like this.r
:. vd,1n I'm ten years cid m this Christmas rn,e !"
I've nothing else. but this one dime
s. Five douars. When you get it changed
Come TO my ofice.thats the place.
Now wait bit, there's time enough!
You need not run headlong race.
Where do you liver" Moot anywhere.
Ne and two others" "And you thought
The fruiterer's window pretty, hey?
"a Or were you hungry7" "Just q bit,'
He answered, bravely as he might.
So couldn't buy breakfast sir,
And had no money left last night"
'' And Jon are cold ?" "Aye, just = bit.
He smiled and pulled his ragged cap,
And dArted OF to get the change"
So, with half UNCONSCIOUS sigh,
sought my once desk again.
An hour or more my eusy wits
Found work enough with book and pen.
But when the mantel clock struck fve
started with q sudden thought,
For there beside my hat and cloak
Lay those six papers had bought.
" why; where's the boy, and where's the schangs'
All. well ah, wen! they're all alike!
Twas q fool to tempt him SO?
DiahonestI Well, might have known;
And yet his face seemed candid, too.
p If he had brought me what due.
'fBus caution Often comes too late"
And 80 took my homeward way,
Deeming distrust Of human kind
The onlyl esson Of the day.
just two days later, sat,
Half DOING, in y ofics chair.
/ heard tfmfd knock, and called
In my brusQue fashion, " Who is there 81
An urchin entered, barely seven
The same Scotch face, the same blue eyes
And stood, half doubtful, at the door,
Abashed st my forbidding guise.
"sir, is you please, my brother jim
He couldn't bring the money. sir,
Because his back was hurted SO.
she didn't mean keep the CHANGE
He got runned over mp the street;
The wheel went right across his back,
And t'other fore-wheel smashed his feet.
"They stopped the horses just in time,
And then they took him up for dead,
And al that day and yesterday
He wasn't rightly In his heao.
50 They took him to the hospital
one Of the newsboys knew twas jim
And vent too, because, you see,
We two are brothers, and him.
aHe had that money In his hand,
And never saw it any more
Indeed, he didn't mean 70 stealI
He never lost cent before!
"Hewas afraid that you might think
This morning, nruo when they brought him to,
He cried because he couldn't pay
ssBe made me fetch his jacket here;
It's torn and dirtied pretty bad;
It's only it to sell for RAYS,
But then. You know. it's al ne nao
81 When he gets 1weII-st won't be long
If you viii caA ehe money lent,
He Gays he'll work his fingers OF
But what hen pay you every cent"
And then he cast . ruefuI glance
At the soiled jacket where # Lay.
sGNo no my boy9 Take back the coat,
Your brotherss badly hurt, you say
Where did they tahe h4.n9 sust run ont
And bail cab, then wait for me.
Why,I would give q thousand coats.
And pounds, for such . boy as he J"
A halfhour after this we stood
Aad tSe nurse e tsis chscksd the hasty steps
That fell too loudly on the boards.
thought him smiling IN. T. h.s . sleep e. ..,a
Smoothing away the tangled halr