in New York, Dick?" ask
ce I can
tle about yourself. Have yo
My father went to sea; but he went off before mother died, and noth
e of you when y
and they couldn't do much. When I was seven the woman died, and
ld!" exclaimed Fr
r to take care of myself, but," he cont
could
metimes I was a newsboy, and diffused intelligence among the masses, as I heard somebody say once in a bi
enterprise?" s
"but I give it u
at
t of Heralds, and I thought I'd make a sensation. So I called out 'GREAT NEWS! QUEEN VICTORIA ASSASSINATED!' All my Heralds went off like hot cakes,
right, Dick
Dick; "but lots
t make it
r old gentleman,-a Englishman he was. He couldn't help cryin' to think the qu
id you
d just laid in a stock, and didn't want to buy. So one cold night, when I hadn't money enough to pay for a lodgin', I bur
mes, Dick," said Fra
ry and cold, with nothin' to eat or to warm me; but t
t's
d Dick. "It's mean a
ever tem
to look at the bread. It made me feel kind o' good just to look at the bread and cakes, and I thought maybe they would give me some. I asked 'em wouldn't they give me a loaf, and take their pay in matches. But they said they'd got enough matches to last three mo
u didn'
. Mark's Place. His boy was sick, and he hadn't no one to send; so he told me he'd give me ten cents if I would go. My business w
y long in the matc
s one old lady-she was rich, too, for she lived in a big brick house-beat me down so, that I didn't make no profit at all; but she wouldn't buy witho
of meanness in the wo
d Dick, "there would be some chance for poor pe
ill be rich so
hook h
cating the one he had received from the dropper, "and will be
self, Dick," said Frank. "Stewa
n't
ng in a small way, and worked his way up by degrees. But there was one thing he determined in the beginning: that he would be strictly honorable
a teacher, and I'm awf
needn't
an I h
u learn a
. It wouldn't do me much good if I learned to read and
ere no nigh
es
suppose you don't w
's the truth. But since I've got to talkin' with yo
'll make a smart man if you
so?" asked Dic
n him. I feel very much interested in you, Dick. You've had a hard time of it so far in life, but
I'm a pretty rough customer, but I aint as bad as some. I m
as you, Dick, that have grown up respectable and
to work har
ly work hard, but wo
the ri
do so. That will make people have confidence in you when they come to know you. But, in order to succeed well, you must manage to
, soberly. "I never th
till
severance," said Frank. "A yea
ee what I can do," sai