Messenger No. 48

s your

ro Le

ld are

n't k

ize I shouldn't say

act; but I can run a good deal fas

ot attempt to conceal a smile as the boy spoke thus

do yo

East Tent

and fath

boardin' with

ot employ boys who

hinney 'round, jest as

hat, but we prefer to have so

s," Jet said gravely. "It ain't so awful nice to hustle for yourself with a chanc

u been earni

l of goin' into the theayter biz, but I couldn't git the right kind of a job. I can dance a good many of

ch evidently pleased the manager, for

ve you a t

ad of that fat chump over there I don't want a cent," and he pointed to a very fle

ty-eight. We'll find a coat which will answer until another

y c

know how much to charge for service, and set o

o turn away from the desk when a very

are you goin' to

beginners; but there are good chances

did as directed, and was soon busily engaged studying the tariff o

room hardly larger than a cupboard, and two meals each day. He would now, providing he did not indulge in too many luxuries while traveling aroun

d." Jet said aloud when he was tired of studying the printed instructions. "I've

nsciousness of being alive, and on making great effo

feller; I s'pose,"

ink I look

om here to wor

et around an' keep the flies offer them

worked here a week. It's dull now, but wait awhile,

do very much?" J

ay that I didn't get throug

have to work s

where the customers send you, an'

you ever been

down a dog for a man

u get h

urse I

been mighty ro

hy

so long if he wasn't allowed t

?" and the fat boy made ready

he desk called loudly: "Number forty-eight!" and he went forward qui

ore importance than to carry a letter to a certain house in the immediate vicinity, but to J

ave a mighty good thing of it," he said to himself, i

f his new work, and when he went home it was with the pleas

boys" made sport of him for appearing at such an hour, predicting that in les

d to remain idle

n at the desk called sharply

Fourteenth Street.

he had been sent to a bar-room which was by no means noted for bearin

n. The elder, tall and slim, and the ot

ger entered, and Jet fancied that the fellow's

himself, as he approached the table, but he gave the matter no further tho

o go to the corner of Sixth

than ten

o a party with red hair who is s

took the traveling-bag which was remarkably light in we

number, and you are to tell h

by my cap that I

d never mind about yo

s,

ng back, and you are not to stop o

just a trifle indignantly, and before he could s

your business, for we want the answ

sed by the men, and, walking as rapidly as the crowds on

d hair which looked quite as false as the

number?" he as

ne hundred and ten,

tore Jet's burden from him, and thrust into the boy's hands a paper p

it might be signed according to the rules of the office, but before he could

one of perplexity, "but I wish people woul

s as had been promised, and he hurried away, arriving at the saloon only t

h this?" and Jet hel

umber on the Bowery. I reckon it's

and, stopping only long enough to read the wr

otel, and on ascending the stairs to the tiny apartment called b

ho didn't do any loafing,"

t stopped

hang around c

bod

talking to that

ch o

llow yo

the red-haired man, and he didn't

is you

y-five

to the Stock Exchange. I don't care to have a lot of people talking about

ir? the manager wants the d

and put it down

esented himself at the station once more the manager had no