American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . akemantakes on five boxes of lunch at Covin. Well, said the boy, with a grin, I gotta sellthings, aint I ? The brakeman had nt oughta havethat graft anyhow. Id oughta have it. He getsthem lunches fer two bits and sells em for thirty-fivecents. Far from feeling abashed, he was pleased withhimself. Folks is funny people, remarked a man with aweather-beaten face who sat in the corner seat, andseemed to be addressing no one in particular. I knowa boy thats going to git hung some day. And whenthey ve got the noose rigged nice around his neck, a
American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . akemantakes on five boxes of lunch at Covin. Well, said the boy, with a grin, I gotta sellthings, aint I ? The brakeman had nt oughta havethat graft anyhow. Id oughta have it. He getsthem lunches fer two bits and sells em for thirty-fivecents. Far from feeling abashed, he was pleased withhimself. Folks is funny people, remarked a man with aweather-beaten face who sat in the corner seat, andseemed to be addressing no one in particular. I knowa boy thats going to git hung some day. And whenthey ve got the noose rigged nice around his neck, andeverything ready, and the trap a-waitin to be sprung,why, then that boy is goin to be so sorry for hisself thathe wont hardly know what to do. He 11 say: T aintnever had no chance in life, I aint. The world aintnever used me right. . Yes, folks is funny people. After this soliloquy there occurred a brief silence in 444 p Cf<3ffQ ^B o OQ p- 03 <l B tJ^ p P a (D nj rr i-^ «<! P & 3 ^2. 03 3 Tl P tr n CD oEl 4 P (-U p O us ^ q g o p*. THE ROAD TO ARCADY the smoking room, and presently the train boy took uphis basket and went upon his way. You say they take on the lunches at Covin now?one of the passengers asked of the man in the electric-blue cap. Yes. Whats become of old man Whitney, over to Fay-etteville? They used to git lunches off of him, replied theother, but the old man wasnt none too and then he d oversleep, and folks on the 5 a. of Columbus was like to starve for breakfast. Right smart shock-headed boy the old man s got,put in another. The old man gives im anything hewants. He wanted a motorcycle, and the old man giveim one. Then he wanted one of them hot-candy ma-chines; they cost about two hundred and fifty dollars,but the old man give it to im just the same. The kid went to San Francisco with it, didnt he?asked the man with the electric-blue cap. He started to go there, replied the former speaker,but he only got as fur as Little Rock; t
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