South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-04-17
N q M B E r T E N
FOR THE BOYS.

~ ""o - io'hJi ouli uay, ana lnere
were but few customers at Hunter &
tiaIrs dry-goods establishment.
The cast -boy's holiday, said one
of the boys, nothing selling TO- day
but gosssmers and umbrellas. If il
wasn't for a rainy day coming and
making break oLce in a while, we'd
be laid up
"a good time TO read that paper
you bought. Oscar Holiness said an
other boy. les full Of adventures,
hair breadth escapes. and shootings.'
Take it cut Of your pocket, and
let's hear them, said a chorus Of
voices.
Come on, Ten, Sail one of the boys.
Move along here, and make q place
for Ten, he continued. pushing a
gainst the crowd which had gathered
in corner by the bundle. counter.
l don't care for such papers. said
the new y.arrived cashSboy. There's
nothing true in nothipg i'm
proving or instructing 1t was read.
ing that kind of papers that made
Johnny MCPHERSON run away from
home. He never would have turiied
out 30 bad if it hadn't been for that
sort of reading.
Tens approaching, said the owner
OF tue paper. Let's pass around the
h.t.
But Gilbert Shaw, Cash. boy No.
Ten. paid no attention to the taunts
OF his companions, and sitting down
by the counter, quietly took a paper
out oil his pocket, and after looking
over the contents, read slowly aud
aloud; "A gentleman interested in
art offers a prize OF So for the best
specimen of drawing made by boy
who has never had any instruction in
the art, end who is not over fifteen
years OF age. Competitors for the
prize must have the drawing in by
the lss OF April
You're the boy. Ten, to try for that,
you'll get it sure,' exclaimed one OF
the boys, whose attention had been
drawn away from the alluring pic j..
lures of the 6rsi paper.
lie made cool JOB of the doll
dressmakers sign, said one OF the
crowd, sneeringly.
Did Ten paint that asked another
boy. That'a piece Of artistic ge
MUS, must confess.
TeU's solid with all the Iadies said
Oscar Holmes. Miss McCleary up
IN the suit department dotes on him,
and always asks, Where's Ten ? and
the lady at the lace-counter, she al
ways gives him her sweetest smiles
and Amy brown, Dolls Dressmaker
after the painting Of that wonderful
sign oil course she adUres him.
You ought 10 be ashamed of your
selves, said the bundle.boy, as Gil,
bert Shaw went off just then to an,
swer call for Cash. Amy Brown II
a poor, little lame girl, and Ten hai
been tie means Of setting her up In
business. She WAS very poor. anf
didn't have enough 10 eat d. for,
that. Now she dresses the dolls 10
the rich folks all about, and they pay
her we'll for it.
lhree cheers for Cash said aLotb
er; and repeated calls for Cash Jus
tnen made the boys scatter in d fer.
enL dircc ions.
When Gilbert SbaR went hom
that night he resolved 20 try for tn
prize don't expect 10 get it, mo,
ther, he said but chant lose any
thing by trying, and | can spend ml
evenings practising.
After be had confded bis plan I,
his mother, he vent over TO tell Am,
Brown. She was very happy tha
evening, for she had just received
an order for ten dresses for q doll
reception.
oh, l do hope you'll get the prize
Gilbert, she said. / do believe yot
will, How / wish could 40 some
thing to help you and the little cir
read the announcement in the pape
over and over. Gilbert. Mr.. Graham
would give sou some help. ! know
tie is a very kind man, and III Vel
him III make all bis little girls doll'
dresses for nothing VI be Will sho,
you hoW 20 make q good drawing.
I But the paper says 1t must be With
out any instruction, you know, Amy
and II wouldn't be honest or honor