The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-04
Teddy.

bin, and Teddy, too. Teddy's the little
teller as does arrunds for the bank.
I'm workin' in the TELEGRAPH, and a
very good sort O job it is, too, sir.
You see, it comes around kind O.
queer like, and l never look down at my
decent clothes and my clean hands but
| think of that cold winters night when
Teddy father died of the tremors, and
left both of us without a home or a
crust O bread. I'd been stayin' at
Teddy's, SEEM as how | had no other
place to go to, and when we 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 a cent
as didn't belong to me-, says Teddy, as
we stood before restaurant window,
lookin' at the good things inside and
BLOWN our fingers with our breath to
keep the frost from nippen' on EN-. Il
say, Jack. wouldn't it be rum'un, eff
some millionaire u d start us up in the
newspaper line?'
50 Nary millionaire says |. Folks
don't 90 around huntin' for sech bust
ness talent as you and | hev got |
went on, and then | turned, suddenly,
for man as had been standin near
us, big, well-togged Teller, teched me
on the shoulder, and says he:
Well, my lads, in hard luck?'
/ ''' should say So says Teddy, and,
between kickin' his toes and BLOWN
his fingers to keep 'em warm, he told
the man all about it.
So And how much capital does it re-
quire to start in business?' he SAYS, with
a sort O smile, after he had listened
to Teddy's story.
'' A quarter ; Il do to begin on says
Teddy.
1.-The man TUX out his pocket-book, and
handed him a dollar.
flake 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,
leavin' us half laughin' and half cryin'
at our good luck.
60 My eyesr says I, Teddy, we can
90 to the theater and hev a good meal
for onct
Teddy looked sort O grave at me.
g. Not much, Jack. Well buy little
bread and bunk under the sidewalk I'M
til mornin'. Business is business, and
mean to do the square thing by that ere
chap as did the handsome thing by us,
you bet!'
80 we went in the newspaper bust
ness, a bunkin' in a coy spot under the
sidewalk We got some old rags and
some straw, and it was better nothin'
to cover us up with.
81 remember the night when big
streak of luck struck us, and we went
to the theater. 1t was late when we
came home and we had crept into our
bed, and had snuggled up together, to
keep warm, and was n talkin' of the
theater and the actors, when we heard
a hurryin', rustlin' sound on the side
walk over us, and two men came run
min down past the VERY place where
we was, and behind 'em we could hear
shouts and runnin'.
Drop it, Bill, you foolr heard one
on 'em say, and, as couple of shots
was fired, one of the fellers jerked
suthin' he had in his hand over near
where we was, and dashed with his pal
through the alley-way, couple of po-
licemen after 'em.
"We waited for nearly an hour, not
daring to stir, for fear if the peelers
found us BOOKING under the sidewalk
they'd nab us and have us vagged.
(Beg parding, sir; these slang words
come material like.) Then Teddy he
creeps out and picks suthin up that
the two fellers had drapped.
80 Lori he says, in whisper; it's
a tin boxr
1--WE didn't sleep any more that night,
for we was too much excited, and as
soon as the mornin' papers was ready we
went after 'em.
Teddy couldread and he looked over
the paper the first thing, for the box
which he had hid in the straw was up
permost in his mind.
land what do you think? Dear me!
if there wasn't full column about
bank robbery the night before, and the
robbers d got away with tin box con-
tainin' twenty thousand dollars in bonds
and money.
t"No more work to-day said Teddy, |
after we sold our papers, and we went
back to the straw under the sidewalk and
folded the box in a paper. 1--WE inn
portant business with the bank"
1T was eleven o clock when the little |