The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-03-02
Thrown on the Streets.

day, when we turned out that millionart
on Fifth avenue, because he didn't come t.
time with his tent, didn't object bit.
loves to dispossess real gentlemen"
"Was old Tompkins q millionaire, Bill p
ain course he was. Why, Tommy, Tomp
kins was worth his clean hundred thousanc
once, afore he dabbled in stocks in Wal
street, and then he put his foot in it."
ain the stocks, Bill ?"
"Sartain, Tommy"
"Then old Tompkins was like me, Billy
for got in a bit of scrape down in Della,
ware, and had to put both my feet in the
stocks"
"Let me Sec" said Bill drawing some legal
papers from a capacipus inside pocket of a
heavy overcoat which had seen its best days
at least a generation before.
"Nc, 76-this is the house-third floor.
Whew, Tommy! Two flights of stairs to
dray that furniture down-back, room
Mrs. Livingston-warrant to dispossess-$5
rent, and $3.50 costs"
"Well, let's tackle the job, Bill, for we've
got three more to attempt, and the arter-
moons are leetle short in December. Lord |!
How it SHOWS, and that cold wind cuts like
knife. 1t must be down to sneroW
"Shero, Tommy, shero If the folks up
to Court heard you talk like that they'd
laugh at you" ,'~Dt
Up two rickety flights of stairs climbed
these two individuals, and under their
united weight the stairs groaned audbly, as
though in horror of the scene they were des-
tined to witness, and the deed that was to be
perpetrated. They had long been strangers
to banisters, and as a substitute therefor
these gentlemen grasped the laths on the
wall, which had been so long uncovered
that they were grimy and black from years
of similar usage.
"This must be the room, Tommy shall I
knock?"
"Knock Why, Bill, yer amt in the Fifth
avenue now-burst the door in !"
"But she may be a sleepin'."
"Well, so much the better. 1t will wake
her up. Delicate attentions does very we'll in
Billy, but in lowcalites they
aip't not appreciated for cent"
Grasping the handle, the one who had
thus been addressed threw the immense
weight of his ponderous body against the
door. 1t had been strangerto a lock for
many year, and, as it yielded INCREASINGLY
to the immense impetus of the burly fellow,
he fell headlong into the room, striking his
head heavily against the uncovered floor.
Infuriated with pain, and wild with rage,
he jumped hastily to his feet, and while he
endeavored to stooP the flow of blood that
besmeared his face, he fairly yelled at
4 pale-faced, matronly-looking lady, who
sat shivering from the cold in corner of
The room futher from the window.
"Is you Mrs. Livingston?"
"That's my name" replied the lady in
faint voice in which tremor was plainly
"Then why don't you have carpet on
your floor when gentlemen enter yer room,
and not have 'em dash their brains QUIZ"
/ "Gentlemen are not in the habit ofentering
looms as you did, sir" said Mrs. Living
aton, in the same tone of voice, fruitlessly |
to restrain the fear which the |
and unannounced entrance
If the two men had caused.
ooh! Then we is infer that we is not gen.
lemen. Eh, Tommy?'
"Yes! We comes here to exercute the
of the law, and put this woman
,ut who has cheated her honest landlord |
put of a morth's rent and l suppose we
must be blacklegs. Eli, Billy2"
After the interchange of these choice bits
If sarcasm the two laughed in unison, loud |
md long.
"But appeal to you both, if you have
listers, if you have children, ifyou have fear
IF the justice of God, do not turn me out to-
lay" said Mrs. Livingston, appealing, with
ler attenuated body bent forward in suppli- |
lation, and her hands clasped as ifin the at |
itude of prayer
"oh we've fetched yer to yer trumps, |
,ave we?" said Bill. "Here is this here
warrant of dispossess-Thomson against |
Iivingston-one month rent, S. costs, S.
10. Now is yer agoin' to pay it?"
"Gentlemenl beseeeh you. have not |
got a cent, You see my condition, l haye |
lot tasted food for three days, and my limbs
ire almost benumbed with cold."'
whats that got to 10 with us. We amt |
l soup house, is we, Tommy"
"Nol Nor We don't keep no wood or coal
yard, neither You either pays it, or yer
ion't. If yer pays it, yer stays. If yer
ion't pay it, out yer go, bag and baggage" |
"But wait until tomorrow morning and l |
will g0without murmur It is showing
terribly. Hear the wind how it shrieks?
Surely you would not turn me out upon the |
cold streetson such day to freeze todeath ?"
"That don't eonsarn us. Eh, Tommy"
"No? We ain't undertaker's shop"
(Which Of you gentlemen is the Marshal?
Lot me appeal 10 him"