Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
overing that the bill he had offered was
op, you young vagabon
e me back
again? No, sir, I sh
ick. "A gentleman that owes me fo
d the clerk; but he s
d call him,
s late customer standing
e? You were a precious long time about it. I beg
style," said
ere's th
en't g
the bil
t got tha
oung r
I'll tell you all about it. The man what too
, did he? I'll go with you to the store, an
ushed a little, and looked nervous. He fancied that he could browbeat a ragged boot-black, but with a gentleman he saw tha
man, "point out the cl
id Dick, pointin
walked up to
ily, "for a bill which that boy offered you,
the clerk, his cheek flush
quire you to produce it, an
s vest-pocket, and drew
, but it is not the
e one he
man looked
, "is this the bill yo
it is
e clerk, who began to find himself in a t
f all in the store, and the proprietor walked
is, Mr. Hatch?
for a bad bill. I kept the bill, and told him to clear
the
, that's a bad bill," he said.
ne the boy offered,"
me denomination, but
mber what ba
Merchants' Ba
u sure
a
kept it and off
if you want to," sa
ect that your clerk pocketed the good bill, and has substituted the
on the Merchants' Bank,"
ter feel in
d," said the merchant, firmly. "
the clerk; but he looke
be searched," sa
u I haven'
Hatch, or will you allow yourself to b
e clerk put his hand into his vest-pocket, and d
ked the shopkeeper, sho
t
e a mistake," fa
," said the merchant sternly. "You may go up to the desk and ask for wha
e store, after he had finally got the bill changed. "I must
"You're very kind. Don't you
he with a smile. "I
rnum's to-night, and see the bearded lady, the eight-foot giant, the
r as the Astor House. He took his station o
the other, a boy of thirteen or fourteen. They were speaking
some of the sights of New York, but I shall be full of b
s,
'll have to wait to next time. You can go out and walk by
oked dis
was here," he said. "He
does he
up town,
me than stay here, you can, but as I shall be most of the time in mer
at I will go off by myself. I won't go very far, and
here. Very well, Frank, I am s
n walking around, and looking at the shop-w
n enterprising young man, he thought he saw a chance fo
ncle was about leaving, and said, "I know all about th
ittle curiously at the r
a city boy
, "I've lived here ev
bout the public bui
s,
e Centr
know my way
man looked
vel proposal. He isn't exactly the sort of guide I would have picked out for you
," said Frank, who felt a little shy
't washed your face t
hat was the ge
ash-bowls at the hotel
i
el did yo
Box H
Box H
ept in a box on
eyed Dick
ou like it
ept b
it had
wet my best clo
ll the cloth
s,
rds to Frank, who seemed p
e, my lad
the office, to the foot of the staircase. Here a servant of the hotel stopped Dick, but
y paused before a door. This being op
lad," said
d Frank