New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-29
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Teddy.


"Newsboys? not now, sir, but I hev bin,
and Teddy, too. Teddy's the little Teller
as does arrunds for the bank. Pm a.
workin'' in the TELEGRAPH, and q very good
sort O job it is, too, sir.
''You see. it comes around kind o.
queer like, andtI never look down at my
decent clothes and my clean hands but l,
think of that cold winters night when
Teddy's father died of the, tremors, and
left both1of.us without a home or a loaf
O. bread I'd been stayin' at Teddy's,
seein as how I had no other place to go
to, and when both of us. found
ourselves orphans we concluded there
was nothin' for us but to beg or to steal
to keep from starvin' to death.
I'D lever die afore I'd take cent
as didn't belong to me- Gays Teddy, as
we stood before restaurant window, a
lookin'. at the good things inside and
blowin' our fingers with our breath to
keep the frost from nippen' on 'em. I
say, Jack, wouldn't it be a rum,un, eff
some millionaire I'D start us up in the
newspaper line?' 3 g 49,
" Mary millionaire, says /. Folks
uOA ~ dIOuuu uuAIAA ia oCOA OuoiA0eo
talent as you and I hev got,' / went on,
and then turned, suddenly, tor a man
as had been standin' near us, a big. we'll
logged Teller, tcched me on the shoulder,
and says lie:
"'Well, my lads, in hard luck9'
"s.I should say so,' says Teddy, and
between kickin' his toes and BLOWN his
fingers" to keep them warm, he told the
man all about it.
"sAnd how much capital does it re-
quire to start in business? he says, with
a sort O. q smile, after he had listened to
Teddy's story. Iva, ca
"A quarter III do to begin on says
Teddy
The man took out his pocket book, and
"Tha him a dollar.
'''Takc that my little man. he says,
and hope you'll not deceive me or
yourself, and make a good and proper
use of it, and he jumped on a car, a leay-
in usfhalf laughin' and half cryin' at
our good luck.
90 My eyesr says I, Teddy, we can go
to the theater and have good meal for
onct'
"Teddy looked sort o. grave at me.
"' Not much, Jack. Well buy lit
tie bread and bunk under the sidewalk
until mornin' Business is business, and
mean to do square thing by that ERE
chap as did the handsome thing by us
you bet2
80 we went into the newspaper bust
ness, a bunkin in a cosy spot under the
sidewalk. We got some old rags anC
como e%rau, on1 ~ xI,oa hnt%or'n uothin
to Governs up with. 4.
II remember the night when big
streak Of luck struck US, and we went t.
the theater. It was late when we came
homeand we had crept INTO our bed
and had Struggled up together to keel
warm, and was talkin' Of the theater and
the actors, when we heard hurryin
ruslin' sound on the sidewalk over us
and two men carnesa runnin' down pas
the very place where we was, and be
hind 'em we could hear shouts ant
runnin. s+eg yvgf sg-s
"'Drop it, Bill, you fooll' heard on,
On EN- say, and, as couple Of shots wa
fred. one of the fellers jerked suthin' h,
had in his hand over near where we was
and dashed with his pal through the al
ley-way, q couple of policemen after 'em
1--WE waitedsfor nearly an hour, no
daring to stir, for fear if the peeler
found us boozing under the sidew:all
they'd nab us and have us vagged. (Bel
parding, sir; these slang words com
natural ike) Then Teddy he creeps on
and picks suthiu up that the two Teller
had dropped. .@.ssE,ss
Lori he says, in i whisper; its
tin boxp ~ II
'We didn't sleep any more that night
for we was too much excited. and a
soon as the mornin' papers was ready VI
went after, EN-.
Teddy could read, and he LOOKED
over the paper the first thing, for the DO,
which he had hid in the straw was upper
most in his mind. Il -. -
s'And what doyou think? Dear me! i
there wasn't a full column about a banl
robbery the night before, and the rob
bers d got away with tin box contain
in twenty thousand dollars in bonds ane
money.
"'No more work to-day said Teddy
after we sold our papers, and we wen
back to the straw under the sidewalk ant
folded the box in y paper. i, ssIve import
ant business with the bank"
1T was eleven o'clock when the littl
Teller and myself walked into the banl