The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-29
TO THE LAND or FAR AWAY
VENT BILLY AND ROSIE IN
SEARCH or ADVENTURE.

lust ana hOu Way FINN hhlm ABicep
on Your Doorstep Some Fine Night.
Something positively must be done with
Billy Bird. Billy Bird 10 0 years old, q
dreamer and %raconteur, and when he isn't
running away he lives at o3 Milton street,
which Ia near the Long Island end OF the
Greenpoint ferry. But Billy Bird suffers
40 from chronic vanderbilt that It 10 an
episode in Billy's little life TO stay q whole
week in Milton street without running away.
II some night when you are trying to
find the keyhole you stumble across q
sleepy little wac wearing a blue blouse and
Knockers, black stockings and laced shoes
and no hat. that's Billy Bird. sergt. Cole
man Of the Greenpoint avenue police station
says he Is just sick and tired OF sending
out general alarms for Billy. Billy has
begun now TO take his six-year-old sister
Rosie with him on his explorations. Az Q
o'clock yesterday morning, when Billy
and Rosie were found asleep In a hallway
over Charley Jooh's saloon at s55 Second
avenue, Manhattan, Billy, instead Of being
properly ashamed Of himself, said that he
Intends to keep right on'exoursioning until,
sep him Gawd, he gifts as fur's Coney.
But six-year-old Rosie had had enodAh
of seeing New York for one day. A long
time ago, Rosie confessed, Billy had begun
10 try to persuade her to leave homo on
one Of his personally conducted tours.
The home she had left, she said, was away
of some place, with red flowers in the
front yard and a piano inside with a picture
over it Of a mar named Unclejohn with
marvellous black whiskers.
II was on Monday afternoon that she
fell Billy had come to her at 1 o'clock
and with another hitch and tightening Of
the running string Of his blue Knockers he
announced that the call Of the Far Away
had him in its grip again inc he mest go.
Would Rosie come and zee the big bridge
hanging on wires and the ships sailing
under it miles and miles below; and places
with trees, among which men made out Of
iron sat in iron chairs fastened to the tops
OF big blocks Of stone; and, best Of all, n
place on the Bow'ry with three red UNI
brellas without handles swinging from the
biggest penny balloons ever NADER It
wasn't 80 durn' fur. away, and, besides,
Billy would hold Rosie's. hand, and II abe
got too tired maybe Billy'd carry her.
But there were 80 many things to see on
Bily's aide of the river that it was dark when
the two travellers finally started westward
across the bridge hanging on wires. too dark
10 zee the ships hundreds OF miles below. Still,
the red and green lights on the sides of those
ships were very pretty. and far down the
river was one beautiful string OF orange
colored stars that swung across the black
water hi Oh in air and looked like a necklace
Of shiny beads. But Rosie could not enjoy all
these wonders as she had thought she would.
because, al she stumbled along with Billy,
hand in hand, her eyes refused to stay open
for long and down In her tummy something
was seriously wrong. Rosie, hadn'teatep
ANYTHING since
AT . O'Clock yesterday morning Kenny
Hertz, the barkeep at Charley Jooh's,
started upstairs to bed. In the dark hall
way Kenny the barkeep stepped on m
back to the barroom with a wild tale Of an
partly striped With black and white, partly
dark blue and with eight little legs. Gustav
Setter and Charley Jooh, WHO were IN the
With Henry following a bad third. Then
the animal was separated into q little boy
In a blue blouse and q little girl in & black
and white striped frook, Shaking didn't
.ssem to have much ehec upon them, but
when they were carried into the barroom
OF the fragrant free lunch zone brought
the babes from the woods.
Eat! Ten sandwiches Of rye bread and
thick slices Of ham fell into Billy. and two
bottles Of sass'frilla roared down his parched
wiches and a bottle and q half Of saes'frilla.
Now Billy Birds splendid imagination was
getting down to business.
Just as Patrolman Dealing Of the East
Twenty second street police station arrived
on the Job Billy was announcing that he
lived at 10 East Twenty-thoid street n
that he was ready to start for home.
we been ohasin' aroun' fur two or tree
days now. mister added Billy. reminis-
Gently. Last night we slep' in the park
and
:o-o-ohl' cried Rosie. aghast. that's
49, ,,I but p stepped abashed by a savage
An hands started up + 100 East Twenty
third street. Gus Setter, whose home Ii
in Baltimore and VINO lost his wife and
child within a week Of each other, was for
adopting both children on the spot, espe-
best looking girls in the younger set OF
Greenpoint. Policeman Dealing, however.
said that all hands would be arrested for
Kidnapping il there was any adopting done
without first consulting Roeie's owners.
And anyway continued the cop. Il
you take Rosie, remember that that will
have to 60 with it'-that referring TO Billy.
30 Gu Setter had to content himself with
CARRYING Rosie up to Twenty-third street.
There were no red flowers In front Of. 12e,
and as the building was merely q black
pile Of stores and offices. there seemed no
possibility Of q parlor within containing q
picture Of black whiskered Unclejohn
over a piano. Billy Bird hemmed and
hawed and opined that perhaps no had been
mistaken in the number.
Policeman Dealing then took Rosie and
Billy over to the East Twenty-seoond street
station. In front Of Sergt. MCGUIRE was
a description of q Master Bird and sister,
travelling somewhere in Greater New York
incognito, and the description kept tab
with the travelling clothes worn by Police
man Paul ealing's'S charges.
Az Billy had exhausted his imagination
on the Charley Jooh audience he started
all over again with Sergt. MCGUIRE. .Glanc-
ing from the raconteur to Rosie the SER
geant saw Rosie's rosebud mouth drawn
up into a great round o as her brilliant
brother told his tales. Wherefore Sergt.
MCGUIRE took Rosie into n room and put
her through a baby third degree while
Dealing talked to Billy. Rosie. away from
the terrifying presence OF her brother, said
that although she regretted to bring out
family skeletons, Billy was Q fbber. Then
when Billy was told that the black truth
was out and that the Law knew all, Billy
with tears NJ ahame admitted that he wasn't