. St. Nicholas [serial] . anythingagainst Skip Jellison,cause he s sich a terriblefighter: guess he canget the best of anybodyround here in less nthree rounds. I wish Idared to tackle him! Idont blieve he can doas much as he makesout. Then Carrots sud-denly bethought himselfof the papers which yetremained under his arm,and added, Jiminy ! Imost forgot bout s time they wereworked off, or elsethey 11 be too old tosell ; and soon hewas crying the newsagain. Half an hour later,the substitute news-boy was hailed byTeenie Massey, whoasked: What are you upto now, Carrots ?Shifted business ?
. St. Nicholas [serial] . anythingagainst Skip Jellison,cause he s sich a terriblefighter: guess he canget the best of anybodyround here in less nthree rounds. I wish Idared to tackle him! Idont blieve he can doas much as he makesout. Then Carrots sud-denly bethought himselfof the papers which yetremained under his arm,and added, Jiminy ! Imost forgot bout s time they wereworked off, or elsethey 11 be too old tosell ; and soon hewas crying the newsagain. Half an hour later,the substitute news-boy was hailed byTeenie Massey, whoasked: What are you upto now, Carrots ?Shifted business ? Say, Teenie, was you round here whenSkip Jellison hit that fellow from the country? Yes; an if the cops had nt come along sosoon, Skip would have been sorry he tackledsich a job. I blieve that new fellow canfight. So do I; but he did nt stand any show at 663 all, the way things were. These are his papers,an I m sellin em for him. Where is he now ? Jailed. Well, that settles him. I aint so sure of it. You know, an I know,. now, then, what do you want, young chap? the officer asked. an all the rest of the fellows know, that SkipJellison did nt have any business to run roundpunchin him just cause he was a new m goin to see if there aint some chance ofgettin him clear. What 11 you do ? Break into the station-house, an pull him out? Teenie asked ex- 664 TEDDY AND CARROTS: TWO MERCHANTS OF NEWSPAPER ROW. [June, citedly, believing any of his friends capableof doing such a thing, because of the style ofreading in which he indulged, wherein suchdeeds are often performed, in print, by thesmallest and most feeble boys. Well, I dont count on doin quite so well . *: ^v ■ ; ■ ■i I : > jj w^ p _____ J TEEN1E MASSEY S EVENING CALL AT CARROTS S as that, Carrots replied, thoughtfully rubbinghis nose once more, and thereby adding to thesmudge of blacking which already nearly cov-ered his face. I kind er lowed we d get alot of the fellows, an go down to court ter-morrow mornin w
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