. Jerry's family : a story of a street waif of New York . r along the hall-way as the eye couldreach was a double line of his brother merchants, alltrying to peer into the room. Heres Jerrys folks, Sam said, with a flourish ofthe hand, toward Helen, who was advancing to meet herguests, and then he stepped back lest he should obstructthe invalids view. BROTHER MERCHANTS. -Vx , \ The visitors advanced in couples, and were, appar-ently, trying to execute some manoeuvre under thedirection of Mas-ter Jones, butanything likeconcerted move-ment was impos-sible, owing to thepress of numbersand the dim
. Jerry's family : a story of a street waif of New York . r along the hall-way as the eye couldreach was a double line of his brother merchants, alltrying to peer into the room. Heres Jerrys folks, Sam said, with a flourish ofthe hand, toward Helen, who was advancing to meet herguests, and then he stepped back lest he should obstructthe invalids view. BROTHER MERCHANTS. -Vx , \ The visitors advanced in couples, and were, appar-ently, trying to execute some manoeuvre under thedirection of Mas-ter Jones, butanything likeconcerted move-ment was impos-sible, owing to thepress of numbersand the diminu-tive size of therooms. Its no use,fellers! Tugshouted, so loudlythat Pete beganto bark furiously. We 11 have togive up marchinround Jerry, butevery feller cancome here an dohis work like wegreed, cept that , l ,<!» • ii3K-=<i»JMIi|lll,lliiii1 Hi-! I&^ there mus nt beany crowdin. 1 he small apart- TWO ENORMOUS CAKES. ment appeared to be literally packed with guests, and an anxious expres-sion came over Helens face as she realized that a. 172 JERRYS FAMILY. grave mistake had been made in extending such ageneral invitation. We was countin on comin to see yer at the hors-pital, Jerry, Tug began, when the confusion had sub-sided sufficiently for him to make himself heard by all, but there did nt seem to be any show for the wholegang; an seein s how pretty nigh every feller haschipped in a little, it would nt er been the fair shake todo this thing when the crowd was nt round. Wewanted to buy somethin to show that we felt mightybad cause you got hurt an lost your leg, so here sheis! At the same instant Tug and Joe Smith uncoveredthe packages they held, displaying two enormous cakes,ornamented with a scanty amount of icing, and aplentiful supply of tinsel. First off we did nt know what to buy, TUQ^ con- j O tinued, after depositing his burden on the table. Itdid nt seem right to get anything your folks could nthave part of, an cake was bout the only thing thatstruck us. E
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