The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-19
Come and be Shoue.

The Detroit brigade Of bootblacks,
says the Free Press, was increased
by one yesterday. A passenger train
from the East carried one more pas
senger than the conductor knew Of,
because the 8 id passenger was con-
cealed on tho trucks and looked
more like a hunk of mud than live
boy Ia years old. Ho camo across
the river with the others, and after
brief look, around tho depot he
walked up to hackman and said 4:
"Old boy, I'm right from Jersey
City. with nothing to cat for two
hull days and not red in my pock-
OF. Lend mo quarter and I'll make
il o dollar before noon.'
81 don't know you,. replied the
hackmau.
"Nor I you, but that's all right. A
man who won't lend a live boy a
quarter to get start in life is no
man at all. Come, what dye say 2
He got the money, and walking up
to bootblack who stood shivering
in the cool air, he said:
"Boy, you'll never make q sinner
in the world. Your forte is landscape
painting or counting bank notes. III
gin ye a quarter for yer kit, and il
ye ever want money for pint Of
peanuts call on me-.
It was O trade. There was a new
box Of blacking aud q pretty fair
brush, and the new boy no sooner
had the box under his arm than he
cried out in q wonderfully shrill
voice
"Come and SEQ mo : Come and
be shone by chap who kin make
ybr butes look nicer in two minutes
than q slouch could in four days
Hold out yer feet an gin me a
chance to lay the cornerstone OF a
fortune--aud don't forget it,!
He secured FIVE black as fast MS
he could work and in twenty min
utes he had paid back tho quarter
In half an hour he was fifteen cents
ahead and then he rubbed his aching
arms and said:
ave got to drop sunthin' down
for my stomach to lay hold on, and
then Ill come out and make the fui
fly. tn take me two hours yet tc
get limbered up and feel like buzz
saw run by chain lightning. bu,
when 1 do get TO work in earnest
shall use up brush every nine min
its all day long
After he had procured a cheaI
breakfast at restaurant he fouuC
himself confronted by four or five
, bootblacks, who looked as il the,
had planned to give him the bounce
"Morning, gents, said tho new bo,
as he looked from one to tho other
"So use giving mo any copperas, m,
beauties, for I've struck this town t.
, stay. I'm right on the black. I,
. rather black butes, but kin blacl
eyes if I'm forced to. I'm q Keel,
! motor-only more so. Istrike. kick
bite and pull hair all at one motion
: and it takes three policemen to pul
me away from the mangled remain
! Of my victims"
The boys consulted together and
: concluded not to tackle him, and il
FIVE minutes more they were giving
, friend friendship. He led them bacI
: to the depot, stood them in line anc
said:
= "Now, slouches, you stick to M
/: and I'll stick by you This tow
3 hain't bin helf worked, and l know
, it. Down East We all thought yo
r used dish water and stove-blackinl
t instead of shoe polish. Repress ye
emotions q few minits and see M
tear myself all to finders
The new boy moved around like
= top. worked like pony engine. talk
: cd like candidate, and'made twent,
cents in about ten minutes Putin
. the 'chink' down into his old YES
}. pocket, he swung his box over hi
! shoulder aud remarked
I Sixty cents afore 10 o'clock Of til
: first day is good 'nuff. Now I wan
to 60 up town, see the streets. stee
I me- dog, aud this afternoon L
!, feel as il l was born here and la
( been In jail half u dozen times. Ia
s ia, children don't spend your mon
ey for taffy while I'm gone !