New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

night he couldn't sleep for weeping. because the
tears choked him unless they had their WAY.
He tried castle-buiiding again. bui NOW the
foundations always fell down. he had been -
used to telling everything to rs dog that Do
could make no Roadway without that faithful
listener Then h. tried remembering. and
sought to hear again the things hc had said To-
Stray and the things stray had said to hin
for even bark ana yelp and whine had been ar
ticula'e and eloquent to Scraps
But that was worse. 50 much wors. that one
day great fear and horror ZEN upon him. and
TO get rid of it he ran away lie ran all day
and all night. except for while when ~ I'm
asleep by the way. and he kept running at i'm
tervals all the next dav. only pausng now and
them to drink from waysidr streams and 10
eat the crusts and bones he used L. share with
Stray.
When after many days Scraps found him
self in large town where boys as small
himself ana apparently wrctched abound'd.
he felt more at home in the world. and with
out knowing il he eX"mplifed old proverb.
But the companions II his misery loved not
him. and he got nothing but tho cold shoulder
on every side and that was not good
bone. for there nothing on 1t. lie
lived the sparrows live. and with no more
ground to be tramplcd under foot or rise into
the air to fly away. Happily it early sum
mertime and Scraps spent all his spare time
Of which he had more than any gentleman of
lesure-asleep: he had never slept So much
in his life within short time. He slept in
deserted alleyways. in old boxes. in empty ash
barrels under tumble-dOwn steps " tenement
houses-every where. in short, except in bed
And 1t Is probable that Scraps would never
again have slep. in anything that could he
called bed had II not been for his uncon
querabe desire to help anything in danger.
one evening he wandered about. pcering
into garbage cans and keeping wary eye on
possible corners in which he might put up for
the night. he found himself in the midst of
crowd of small boys, who were cutting and
pushing the smallest among them. because he
had already sold off his bundle Of evening
papers. apparently because he was the smallest.
for his diminut.Ve size appeared 10 be the
cause of his good luck ard more than that it
had caused several ladies. who would not other
wise have bOugh. evening papers. To pause and
speak with him while they bought these papers.
and then To hurry away. declaring themselves
unable to wait for change-a trick so trans
parent that even Patsy O'Halloran through
ii. and II wasn't the first time either, So that
not only had Patsy sold out his bundle Of
papers long before any of the fraternity. but he
had made undue and irregular profits on the
transaction and this was not 10 be endured.
Scraps looked just long enough to under
Slanu, anu II" saw tndl rats! was II nllr ~ a
creature. while his enemies were all older
larger. stronger and there were many Of them
once more Scraps felt tngng over all
his body. and again his heart gave great
thump just as il il had jumped into his throat.
and the next moment he had seized Patsy by
the arm while "a bell sounded with a fearful
clang and the army Of small boys scattered in
every direction. for a cable-car came tearing
round the with all the reckIessncss Of
human life characteristic ~ a free and on
lightened age
The gripman sWore. n woman screamed and
turned her head away. a man jumped up and
down in frantic excitement, bowling impreca
tons at the gripman and Scraps dragged Patsy
into the gutter. where they rolled over each
other till policeman picked them up and asked
what all this row was about Neither OF the
boys could explain, for they were in the tu
mutt Of fear which succeeds danger: but they
chung TO each other. Scraps because he felt
that Patsy belonged to him now. and Patsy
because he was glad To belong 10 anybody AT
that moment
The small vender Of soon perceived
that Scraps vas new boy. and he felt. with
instinct uneTring az Stray's. that he. too.
had found friend. although that was not
actly how he put the matter later In the ven
ing, when he introduced Scraps to the present
habitaton of the descendants from long line
OF ancient Celtic mobiles
Patsy told his mother that Scraps had saved
his life as well as his nickels. and Mistress
O'Halloran. whose heart good az her
lineage and possibly better. declared that the
presarver Of me son should never want bit or
SUD whites I've crust av bread or a drop o.
tay in the ould chiny taypot"
Thus II came 20 pass that Scraps was
adopted into the O'Halloran family He shared
the best they had of eating and drinking, and.
though he refused the "tay," which had a Pc
cullar flavor such as he had never noticed in