Honest I can. I often pick up torn ones I can bring to you. It's
lots of fun to know what's going on. I sell many more by being able to
tell what's in them than kids who can't read. I look all over the front
page and make up a spiel on the cars. I always fold my papers neat and
keep them clean. To-day it was like this: 'Here's your nice, clean,
morning paper! Sterilized! Deodorized! Vulcanized!'"
"Mickey what does that mean?" asked Peaches.
"Now you see how it comes in!" said Mickey. "If you could read the papers,
you'd _know_. 'Sterilized,' is what they do to the milk in hot weather to
save the slum kids. That's us, Lily. 'Deodorized,' is taking the bad smell
out of things. 'Vulcanized,' is something they do to stiffen things. I
guess it's what your back needs."
"Is all them things done to the papers?" asked Peaches.
"Well, not _all_ of them," laughed Mickey, "but they are starting in on
_some_ of them, and all would be a good thing. The other kids who can't
read don't know those words, so I study them out and use them; it catches
the crowd for they laugh, and then pay me for making them.
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