Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-19
Tom and Jerry.

From the New York Recorder
I was hurrying along Park Row one evsnina
last week when boy, right at my elbow. sails
'Eveuin' paper. missis!' I turned around
He had just one paper in his hand.
"All the rest sold?'' I asked
"All but this" be replied.
As l took it noticed book under his othY
arm-a cheap little pamphlet-and I saids
What book are you readingl"
Ee held it up that I could read The title,
"Great Heroes.'
We'll. how do Won like it9" I asked.
''Purty well. missis- Some of 'em was great
men and fought in big battles but don't know
that's what makes hero after all"
"oh. you don'tr' said i. We were walking
along side by side by this time .And what ds
you think constitutes q hero?'
We'll, knowod little chap once - wss
what call hero. But nobody ever knowsd
much about him and he want never put in ne
book. He's dead now"
We were at City Hall Park by this time.
''Come and sit on this bench beside me-"
said, land tell me about this boy you knew. I
can't put him in q book exactly, but III pus
him in a newspaper and all my children vrl
read about him and praise him for his hsroisa-
Will you tell me?"
He nodded and we sat down. II vss pretty
cold in the park and he was barefooted- Buo
when laid my coat over his knees he showed
il aside and said be didn't mind cold vsathss.
And then he told me the story.
he was NY Cuuul. ne balQs --2nQ ne O000
dead now year. ! missed him awful - Are
and do yet, on cold nights when the wind
blows L wake up sometimes and wonder =
he's colder than he used 70 be when b -
sleeping out doors 1ongside Of me.
His namo was Tom, mine 10 Terry, but IL
boys nicknamed us Tom and Jerry, and rvS
sllus been called Jerry ever since. He w. q
little feller-httlern me-but he ws'a't 'fraid q
nothin'.
HE sold papers, too, and We sllus Kept -
VI T.
Sometimes we had . bed, but oftensr " sasDe
outdoors.
There wuz . tough gang down there, bus
we never mixed in no rowa Some Of the boyU
carried knives. but we kept straight and b.
haved ourselves.
zone night We wus coming homo and -
heard a row going on
What is itg says Tom. Somebody bsasf
hurt Lets go see
I've ran up. There was gang Of boy rsH
bling an old apple woman who used 10 ell -
tom jumped into the eight 10 help -
Then the boys turned on him
81 saws knife dash In the moonlight ed J
Then screamed - hard - could foe -
p'lice.
''They came running down the court douhls
quick, and first they caught the boys-sn q
EN-.
"when they came 10 pick Tom up, n vs',v
no use. he was going 20 fast thst no dooses
nor no ambulance could help him
The p'lioe made all the boys stand In froue
Of him and held lantern fur Tom 70 pick 60
the one that stabbed him
But Tom wouldn't and he knew, too"
"He just smiled and saidi no, I Won't tn .
The boya'
Then be rolled over toward me, s.ad soos1
bye, jerry" and died.
THAT was al, but IL seemed 10 me- Tom -
hero Just a. much - some Of these In -
book Don't it seem 90 10 Won nissis2's
yes. Terry, think he VA"
And win you tail your childrsnr ~ -
..Yes, VIII tell them"
hanky. I've allus kind Of wanted sons-
body 10 know about Tom. h. win ous f.
potters neld nov. There amt no Wy Of ~
memoerin him out thsra But this' n - ~
tor way, won't if7"
Much better" said, and % today Nv
told you the story Of Jsrry's chum, Ton-