The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-06-28
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How One Small BOY Passed IN safet.
Through the Enemies Lines.

How One Small BOY Passed IN Safety
Through the Enemies' Lines.
For vindictiveness, stubbornness and
lack of any mastery inactivity the war
between the states is discounted by the
war between the streets. One was set
tied in four or five years, but the other
is perennial, and as New York gets big
ger and bigger it spreads out over
more territory. Every wide awake
small boy in town knows all about
it. He doesn't need any war maps
to show him where the various
strongholds are. If he had maps they
would be of little use to him, for before
he could master them he would be pretty
sure to stumble into the very midst of
the enemy and subsequently give his
family an opportunity for valuable prac-
tice in first aid to the injured.
Strategy plays an important part in
the battles Of the small boy, and among
other things he learns how to pass
through the enemys country in safety
very valuable bit of knowledge, too,
when the family grocer or butcher hap
pens to have his establishment in a hos
tile district. A reporter a day OF two
ago had chance to see how the willy
boy does this.
The reporter was walking up Univer-
sity place from Washington park when
suddenly he became aware that a boy
was trudging along by his side. The
youngster seemed to have come up
through the sidewalk probably he had
emerged from a convenient areaway-
but, at all events, there he was, a bright
looking, well dressed, active boy, with a
small package under one arm. The bun.
die gave proof positive that he was on
some household errand. Only a woman
could have made such a curious combi
nation Of too little wrapping paper and
too much string.
The boy stuck close to his newly
adopted companion. If the reporter
slackened his pace, so did the youngster
if he increased it, the boy was with him
if he stopped to look in a shop window
the boy followed his example; if he
edged over toward the curb, the boy
went with him.
In this fashion they travelled on bloch
after block. Two or three parties o.
boys playing in the street scrutinizet
the pair closely. They seemed to have
q desire to get at the boy, but apparent
ly they were satisfied that an attacl
would not be polite under the circum
stances. By the time Tenth street wa
reached the reporter began to wonder i
his small companion had decided to at
| l. ~. A
retinue is not always desirable, ant
what was worse, two or three othe
youngsters had fallen into the process
sion, keeping twenty or thirty feet il
the rear, however.
Half way between Tenth and Eleventh
streets the following party stopped The!
seemed to have come to some dividing
line, across which they had no busines
to pass. There they stood, though, witt
very much the air an industrious cat as
sumes when mouse has slipped into
hole Just in time to avoid contact witt
feline claws. AS soon as they halted tn
youth with the bundle seemed to lose al
interest in their doings.
At Eleventh street he suddenly lef
the reporters side. He ran across tn
street at full speed, stopped at the cor
ner, and, turning around to face tn
other boys, made a gesture which wa
so full of derision that his pursuers mus
nave felt disgusted with life for half al
hour. Then he trudged blithely ava,
up the side street. Evidently he was o.
safe ground again and the foe had beel
baked. He had taken convoy through
the lines of the enemy, and had escape,
lot of personal unpleasantness.
1t pays New York small boy to hav
a long head-New York Times.