Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-19
Teddy.

"Newshoys? not now, sir, but l hev bln'
and Teddy, too. Teddy's the little Teller
as does arrunds for the bank. Pm a
woriin' in the TELEGRAPH, and very good
sort o. job it is, too, sir.
'sYou 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
Tcddy's father died Of the tre1nors. and
left both of US without a home or loaf
o. bread. I'd been stayin' at Teddy's,
SEEM as how had no other place to go
to, and when both Of us found
ourselves orphans we concluded there
was nuthin' 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 a restaurant window,
lookin' at the good things inside and
BLOWN our fingers with our breath to
keep the frost from nj ppen' on 'em. i
say, Jack, wouldn't it be rum IN, ct
newspaper line"
Nary millionaire, says l. Folks
don't 90 around huntin' for sech business
talent as you and hev got went on,
and then turned, suddenly, tor man
as had been standin' near US. big. we'll
logged Teller, tcchcd me on the shoulder,
and says re:
Jewell, my lads, in hard luck?'
"' / 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.
"'And how much capital does it re-
qrire to start in business?' he says, with
a sort O smile, after he had listened to
Teddy's story.
"A quarter II do to begin on; says
eddy.
"The man took out his pocket-book, and
ha him dollar.
stake that my little man. he says,
and l hope you'll not deceive me or
yourself, and make a good and proper
use of it, and he jumped on car, Il lcav-
in us half laughin' and half cryin' a
our good luck.
my eyesr says I, Teddy, we can go
to the theater and have a good meal for
onctn
"Tcldy looked sort o grave at me.
"' Not much, Jack. Well buy a lit
tie bread and bunk under the sidewalk
until mornin'. Business is business, and
mean to do q square thing by that 'ere
chap as did the handsome thing by us,
you bet?'
$50 we went into the newspaper bust
ness, bunkin' in q cosy spot under the
sidewalk. We got some old rags and
some straw, and it was bctter'n nothln'
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 lnto our bed,
and had snugglcd up together to keep
warm, and was talkin' Of the theater and
the actors, when we heard a hurryin'
ruslin' sound on the sidewalk over us.
and two men came q runnin' down past
the very place where we was, and be-
hind 'em we could hear shouts and
runnin'.
"'Drop it, Bill, you fooln heard one
fired, one Of the fcllers jcrked suthin' he
and dashed with his pal through the al
ley-way, a couple of policemen after 'em.
1--WE waited for nearly an hour, not
daring to stir, for fear if the peelers
found us boozing under the sidewalk
they'd nab US and have us vagged. Beg
parding, sir; these slang words come
natural likc.) Then Teddy he creeps out
and picks suthin up that the two fellers
had dropped.
"'Lor'n be says, in whisper; its q
tin box'
awe didn't sleep any more that nj ght
for we was too much excited, and as
soon as the mornin' papers was ready We
went after 'em.
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 mis- mind.
And what doyou think? Dear me! il
there wasn't a full column about bank
bers d got away with tin box contain
in twenty thousand dollars in bonds anc
money.
emo more work to-day said Teddy
after VIC sold our papers, and we wen
back to the straw under the sidewalk and
folded the box in a paper. Give import
ant business with the bank"
1T was eleven o'clock when the little
fcllcr and myself walked into the banl
as was named in the paper as bein
robbed, as big as life."'
"'Get out, you young vagabones! :" say;
the i;saitor on seem us.
"'Vagabone yourself!" chimed Teddy
IAN no music!''
"'What do you want?'
I want to see the bank
"'Thls is the bank. Come young maj
step out
81 tell yer I want to see the head ma,
says Teddy; I've important business will
him.
THE old codger sort O. hesitated, bu
finally TUX us into little room, and Their,
the VERY Identical mob as had given Ii
the dollar sot a talkin' to two fly cop
about the robbery.
"'Hullo!' he says, kindly-like to me
well, boys, what can I do for you to
day."