Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won

e was free of the ferry-boat, for he found it anything but pleasant to be looked upon and treated as a lio

, Jim, I'm h

eeth emphasize

ace of some kind; let's go in and have so

d entered one of those nondescript shops, so numerous in certain parts of New York, where a person ca

hivering companion. The latter could scarcely stand from cold, his clothing was soake

e stove, whose bulging, white-wash

ed up to this and beg

ice!" he laughed

nder, in a sharp, business-like style, bustling from behind

he reply of Tom, from whose clothin

to dry out boys. Wh

en't an

go where you sta

a hundred mil

e his replies, though in truth the lad meant no disrespect. The bartend

f-rat, how did

he wa

irl," said Jim, seeing the storm brewing, and de

with a guffaw, not one of the

ed the bartender. "If you don't get out of here

n the same good-natured manner; "but we ca

the stamps t

d know better tha

a half a dollar apiece

it with b

y-five

as well pa

emonnaie, remarking to Jim that they would arrange it between themselves,

s as if he had just recognized in his visitor a millionaire

ll to eating like a couple of famished wanderers. Onl

re did you get t

bout?" demanded Tom, lo

hooked a tiny gold chain from the upper button of his frie

there was a lock

f," said Tom, as he examined the chain and lock

m that girl in the water,

ack!" and with this exclamation the

a short time,

e woman and give her back her jewelry; but nobody there knows any

girl that had so narrowly escaped drowning. They admired it a long time

ring which process the two were urged to drink fully a score of times, Tom being assured b

efused, as they had never tasted spir

retired to their humble room,

do. They could separate and spend the day in the search, and return to their lodging-house after dark, both havi

nshine of the winter's morning the world looked bright and radiant to them. The hurry and rush of Broadway, the crowds constantly surging forward, ea

ay through the great metropolis, that they forgot their real b

A short "No" was the reply, and the proprietor instantly turned his back upon him. Then he tried a drug-store, where he was treated in the same manner. In a hat and cap store, the rotund clerk tried to chaff

an in spectacles, as he sat at his desk in a large shipp

no! I don't want

so beautiful in the morning, gradually became overcast with clouds

derings having covered more ground than he supposed. He had made over thirty applications, and in no instance had he received one grain of enco

opped down in one corner, where he soon fell asleep, not waking until he had gone fully two miles beyond the point where he shou

und that his friend, despite the lateness of the hour, had not yet come back. A shiver

ndred different ways which the police reports show are adopt