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One of these overgrown
newsboys the public won't stand for unless he is in the way when they are
making a car, had hired him to sell his papers while he loafed.
Mickey----"
"'Mickey?'" repeated Leslie questioningly.
"The big fellow called him 'Mickey'; no doubt a mother who adored him
named him Michael, and thought him 'like unto God' when she did it. The
big fellow had loafed all afternoon. When Mickey came back and turned over
the money, and waited to be paid off, his employer laughed at the boy for
not keeping it when he had it. Mickey begged him 'to be square' and told
him that 'was not business'--'_not business_,' mind you, but the big
fellow jeered at him and was starting away. Mickey and I reached him at
the same time; so I got in the gutter again. I don't see how I can be so
slow! I don't see how I did it!"
"I don't either," she said, with a twinkle that might have referred to the
first of the two exclamations. "It must be your Scotch habit of going
slowly and surely. But cheer up! We'll find him.


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