The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-15

The Detroit brigade of boOtblacks was
increased by one yesterday. A passenger
train from the East carried one more pass
enger than the conductor knew of, because
the said passenger was concealed on the
trucks and looked more like hunk of
mud than a live boy IA years old He
came across the river with the others and
after brief look around the depot he
walked up TO a hackman and said
'Old boy, I'm right from Jersey City,
with nothing to eat for two hull days and
not a red in my pocket I'm game, / am.
Lend me a quarter and I'll make it dol
lar before nOon."
II don't know you," replied the hack
man.
"Nor you, but that's all right A man
who won't lend live boy a quarter to
get a start in life is no man at all. Come,
what dye sayy"
| He got the money, and walking up to a
| boot-black who stood shivering in the
cool air, he said:
boy, you'll never make sinner in the
world. Your forte is landscape painting
or counting bank notes. I'll gin We a
quarter for yer kit, and if yer ever want
money for a pint of peanuts, call on me-"
1t was trade. There was a new box OF
blacking and pretty fair brush, and the
new boy no sooner had the box under his
arm than he cried out in a wonderfully
shrill voice:
"Come and see mel Come and be shone
by chap who kin make yer butes look
nicer in two minits than q slouch could in
four days. Hold out yer feet an gin me q
chance to lay the cornerstone of q fortune
.l-and don't you forget it,"
He secured five .blacks" as fast as hs
could work; and in twenty minutes he had
paid back the quarter. In half an houl
he was 15 cents ahead, and then he rubbed
! his aching arms and said:
"I've got to drop suthin' down for my
stomach to lay hold on, and then I'll com,
Tout and make the fur fly. It'll take m,
, two hours yet to get limbered up and fee
like a buzZ-saw run by chain light MINI
but when l do git to work in earnest
, shall use up brush every nine minits al
. day long"
3 After he had procured a cheap break
, fast at q restaurant, he found himself cor
r fronted by four or five bOOtblacks, VIII
e looked as if they had planned to give hin
e the bounce
: Morning, gents" said the new boy, a
l he looked from one to the other. mo us
giving me any copperas, my beauties, fd
I've struck this town to stay. I'm righ
on TIE black. I'd rather black butes, bu
kin black eyes if I'm forced to. Pm
Keely motor,-enly more SO. strike
MIN, uitc, anu pun udiT oil dt Ouc uiOtiOi
q and it takes three policemen to pull m
s away from the mangled remains of m
e victims"
/ The boys consulted together and COZ
It cluded not to tackle him, and in five mil
e utes more they were giving him the
a friendship. He led them back to th
g depot, stood them in line, and said:
"Now, slouches, you stick by me and T.
l. stick by you. This town hain't never bi
). half worked, and / know it. Down ca
8 we all thought you used dishwater an
d stove -blacking instead of shoe polish. r
;, press yer emotion few minutes and sc
n me tear myself all to flinders"
The new boy moved around like to-
e worked like q pony-engine, talked like
1. candidate, and made 20 cents in about te
a minutes. Putting the "chink" down I'M
y his old vestpOcket. he swung his box ov
'e his shoulder aud remarked:
D, "Sixty cents afore 10 O'Clock of the fir
day is good 'nuff. Now l want to go u
E. town, see the streets, study architcctur
y, steal me dog, and this afternoon I'll fe
It as if was born here and had been in ia
II half dozen times. Tata, children don
Il spend your money for taffy while L
It gone p-( Detroit Free Press.