The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1878-02-08
Selected Story.
Ny First Affinity.

window, transtixlng me with that
vindictive shrek all newsboys fee]
themselves called upon to give
| whenever they approach me. II
would be d relief to me to gag the
youth until he leaves our street
any way, but, come to think Of it
rather guess I will let him 60 OF
the sake Of the old memories hi:
coming has called into life.
[ don't think / ever was intend
cd for phiIanthropist. I couldn't
! be d second Miss Dix and become
q general Fover of men'-one's 'squite
| enough of that species to love at
!. once-and it's a dose, even at that,
though [ must say | rather admire
the sex at an awe struck dista nee
and, in particular, | admire fire.
men, sailorsand MISUNDERSTANDING
fellows! Haven't | sat at the win
dow straining my eyes to look after
Isailors going past, rocking from
side to side like a ship in a swell,
and stop ping now and then to give
their what-do-you -caIl-'ems a hoist,
.or transfer their quid of tobacco to
the other cheek, or relieve their
minds by swearing little | can't
tell whether the liking in all caseS
WAS mutual, as [ never knew any
sailors to speak to-but / don't
mean to die and be so. Then the
siiremen don't know anything |
like better than standing at a safe
fjistance and watching fre-sup-
posing nobody care about lives iii
Rhe house-and seeing the fremen
kcrambling up ladders like cats
newly shod,' darting here and there
and everywhere, like SO many
blazing skyrockets, pitching look
Eyeglasses aud crockery and babies
put Of the windows on the heads of
society generally, and carrying
ieatherbeds and young ladies from
upper rooms carefully down stairs
Ah! the extent to which | approve
5f them to be sure.
But newsboys are the class, par
.icularly wherein my heart delights,
'hough their terrific howls do some
lime drive me to the verge of mad
hess. am certain that, if i had
lie good fortune to have been born
lord of creation, 7 should have
Seen one to-day myself. As hadn't,
I'D as nature proved herself an
gnoramus by making a girl Of me
did the best | could, and admired
md cnvied them at a distance,
81 / was nine years Of age, and
Ilen | went and fell desperately in J
We with one Of them. y
And that reminds me that this is i
That I intended telling you about Y
the beginning, when the little
fchin with the papers and slightly P
liled face and appalling lungs 8
Fought it to my memory. All! le
at enchanting newsboy, with
nom / was SO deeply smitten! :
oppose he has sported tail-coat te
NJ polled his maiden vote before Ia
liz, aud wouldn't know the little
III he used to snub SO remorselessly at
cry morning, but am certain she %
Ill know him if she ever sees him it
tin. You see, it's not 50 easy
Egetting the one on whom you set Ie.
bur hearts best affections, and all at
bt sort Of thing, especially if you "
lie attained the mature and
fious age Of nine years old II
5'he way it happened was, that Il
Try morning On my way to school ta
Ised to meet q tall, well-grown, II,
ght-looking lad, who used to car
II bundle of papers under bis nj
II, and march along with D iaunty, ca
fependent swagger, and yell ont 20
Rhe public at large, in a way nc
II would have appalled, . Shaw
1 Indian. Carrying one paper w
his hand, he used to flourish II IN
5he very eyes fevery passer-by, ash
sSekiug out mo