Joe's Luck; Or, Always Wide Awake

chance in ten of my succeeding, and yet I have succeeded. Everything has turned

dollar left over. This would be rather a small sum to start wit

the Bowery. It seemed to him a very lively street, and he was

en a stone from some quarter struck

havoc in bewilderment, when a stout German, the p

scal!" he exclaimed furiously.

oe had recover

lone!" he

laimed the angry man.

ar pretty quick, or

ak your windo

n. "First you break my window, then you tell

"but I tell you I didn't. I was standing here,

" said his captor, puffing with exc

, I

money for

around the chief actors in this s

oung scamp?" said a thin-vis

rowdies that go around doin' mischief. They come a

tall man with sandy hair, addressin

ays I broke

t? Did you

king in, when a stone came f

ssing himself to the German, "what reason have you

in front of it,

would have run away. Di

mine window,"

do so from a distance, and he wouldn't be l

plimentary remarks of the bystanders, who a minut

te. "Let go the boy's collar, or I shall advis

friend of his?"

y life," said the other, "but I

ust pay for

young friend here, who had no more to do with it than myself. I sy

ent a polic

e matter?"

broke-dat's wha

t?" asked th

standing outside

e caught you, have I? I've

ismay, found hims

in the city two

jail!" exclai

o march off poor Joe, when a

t boy!" said the sand

along, too, if

y; "and arrest the German for assault and bat

demanded the of

the new police commissioners,"

uicker change from

, sir," said the offic

didn't k

ly. "Without one word of inquiry into the circumstances, you wer

along, sir?" asked the

o his shop, trembling with alarm. With great di

uffered loss by the breaking of his window. As for you, officer, unless you

only Joe and his advo

dness," said Joe. "But for you I should

long just as I did. Are y

s,

to danger. There are many perils i

. I shall remem

s before the time of sailing

g on board a m

ot a ticket

oe, "a steerage ti

u get this?"

told

did you pa

y dol

ney, for it is a bogus tick

sinking under him. He realized that he had been outrageously swi