Iron County register., 1897-09-23
The 'Extry's" Promotion.
BY OSBORN SPENCER.
WINDOW O'BRIEN saw that her son
Wv Patsy was bothered the moment
Copyright. 1871

.NDoW o'BRIEN saw that her son
wv Patsy was bothered the moment
he entered the house. 1t was early-so
early that the first gray dawn of the
short winter day had hardly yet made
itself visible. He had just finished his
nights work at the office. of The
Morning Moon," where, though he was
quite Is he carried copy and proofs till
the paper went to press, and then
helped in the mailing department. She
was all ready to start out for a days
work at the washtub, but, as usual,
stopped long enough to hear the story
of the night before, which Patsy told
while he ate the cold snack she had
ready for him.
"And what's gone wrong now, Pat
ssy?" she queried, with motherly solici-
tude.
Sure, mother dear, he replied reas-
.suringly, ''it's no trouble of me own
this time. It's me friend, Morton, the
extra reporter I've told We of, that's
run up agin hard luck, and it's meself
that's been tryin' to think of plan to
help him out, all the way home. But
me heads as thick as two-inch plank,
this morning, and see no way to do it
at all.
''Ye see they're a-givin' Mr.. Morton a
chance, they say. And that names that
whinever there's anyone of the re-
porters away from the office for day,
Morton, he comes in. That gives him
work four or five days in the week some
times, and he was to be made 'regu-
lar like the others, bimeby, if he done
well. But the day before yesterday he
was adoin' of the police in Wilbur's
place and somehow he didn't hear any
thing about a beautiful big burglary
that was printed in The Daily Sperad
Eagle in the mornin' and now the regu-
lar reporters is all a-sayin' his name is
-'Dinnis' and Mud and so on and he'll
never get regular job. Worse yet, he
may lose his place as extra"
''Hold up a minute, Patsy dear" his
mother broke in. us it this Mr. Nor
ton that's treated you 50 well in the
Officer"
''Sure it's him that's the only man
that didn't folly in the lead of that
.scrumptious Mr.. Colley Thompson the
sportins editor whin he called me Pc
leg the day 1 first set me fut in the
office, and by the same token that's
why like Mr.. Morton so well and why
I've swore to get even with that scrump-
tious Mr. Colley Thompson. And it's
YOUR own plan, mother dear, that's
gorkin' Sc well with that fine gintle-
man. Youse told me the best way to
even up with him was to make him help
me along faster than he wanted to and
said / could do that best by being of
use to him.
But anyway I'm likin' him much
better this mornin' than ever before for
he's feeIin' as bad about Mr.. Morton's
hard luck as / am meself. He's not
bit like them regular reporters, and he
gave them a talkin' to just before
everybody left the Office that made |
them look sick and done me heaps of |
GOOD. If there's amy one thing Mr.. Col |
lev Thompson prides himself on it's |
his .c'loquial 'cabulary.' which means |
that he uses lots of big words when he |
talks. Well. he let his 'cabulary loose |
on them fellers all right, sure. l can't |
use all his big words, but III try to tell |
you about it
'sHe walks into the city room where /
they was gathered about the big table
they all work around and listens for
awhile to them a-chewin' of the rag |
about poor Morton. And then he looks
al them with smile of conscientious
sooperiority and then he says:
1--WE got few chunks of informa-
ton to present frappay' (that means
freezin' cold. mother. dear) to youse
buddin journalists that youse may not
ike TO hear, and one of them is that
no matter If Morton did get left on that
burglary he's got more good newspa-
Der stuff In one Of his little fir r---"-than !