The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-12

their peddIer's licenses. TO show that
they had not been overlooked by the
kindly society OF Tammany, which sees
that no free and independent voter shall
go unrewarded
New York affected Guido like bad
dream. IT was cold and muddy, and
the snow when 1t fell turned to mud so
quickly that Guido believed they were
one and the same, He did not dare to
think OF the place he knew as home.
And the sight of the colored advertise
ments of the steamship lines that hung
in the windows OF the Italian bankers
hurt him as the sound Of traffic on the
streets cuts to the heart Of a prisoner In
the Tombs. Many OF his countrymen
bade good-by to Mulberry street and
sailed away; but they had grown rich
through obeying the padrones. and work.
Ing night and morning sweeping the
avenue uptown. and by living on the
refuse from the scows at Canal street.
Guido never hoped to grow rich. and no
one stopped to buy his uncle's wares.
The electric lights came out. and still
the crowd passed and thronged before
him. and the snow fell and left no mark
on the white figures. Guido was grow
ing cold. and the hustle of the hurrying
hundreds which had entertained him ear
lier in tho day had ceased to interest
him. and his amusement had given place
TO the fear that no one OF them would
ever stop, and that he would return TO
his uncle empty handed. lie was hungry
now, as we'll as cold. and though there
was not much rich food in the Bend at
any time, today he had had nothing Of
any quality to eat since early morning, ,
The man with the monkeys turned his
head from time to time. and spoke to
him IN a language that he could not un
derstand: although he saw that IL was
something amusing and well meant that
the man said, and so smiled back and
nodded. He felt 1t to be quite a loss
when the man moved away.
Guido thought very slowly, but he at
Ia ct began to feel certain contempt for
the stiff statues and busts which no one
wanted, and buttoncd the figure OF the
one OF the woman with her arms held out |
Inside Of his jacket, and tucked his scarf
in around it. go that it might not be I
broken and also that 1t might not bear
the ignominy with the others OF being |
overlooked.
Guido was a gentle, thinking boy. |
and could not have told you why he did |
this, but he knew that this figure was OF
different clay from the others. He had 1
seen 1t placed high in the cathedrals al
home. and he had been told that II you |
ask certain things OF II II will listen TO
you.
The women and children began to dis
appear from the crowd and the necessity |
OF selling some OF his wares impressed |
Itself more urgently upon him as the
night grew darker and possible customers
a bad position, and that instead OF wait
ing for customers TO como to him, he
ought to go seek for them.
With this purpose in his mind he gath
cred the figures together upon his tray,
and resting it upon his shoulder, moved
further along tho street, to Broadway, |
where the crowd was greater and the |
shops more brilliantly lighted. He had
good cause to be watchful, for the side
walks were slippery with Ice. and the
people rushed and hurried and brushed |
past him without noticing the burden he |
carried on one shoulder.
He wished now that he knew some
words OF this new language, that he might
call his wares and challenge the notice |
Of the passersby, as did the other man
who shouted so continually and vehe-
mently at the l1urrying crowds He did
not know what might happen II he failed |
To sell one OF his statues, 1t was possi- |
biIity so awful that he did not dare con- !