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"Why son, I'm glad to see you!" he cried. "How did I come to miss you? Did
you get off at the wrong stop?"
Mickey shook his head as he took the proffered hand.
"You are Peter?" he asked.
"Yes, I'm Peter," confirmed the man.
"Well you're making the same mistake your pleasant lady did," explained
Mickey. "She thought I was the boy who had been sent to visit you, so she
gave me the glad hand too. I wish I was in his shoes! But I'm not your
boy. Gee, your lady is a nice gentle lady."
"You're all correct there," agreed Peter. "And so you are not the boy who
was to be sent us. Pshaw now! I wish you were. I'm disappointed. I've been
watching you coming down the road, and the way you held together and
stepped up so brisk and neat took my eye."
"I been 'stepping up brisk and neat' to sell papers, run errands, hop
cars, dodge cars and automobiles, and climbing fire-escapes instead of
stairs, and keeping from under foot since I can remember," laughed Mickey.
"You learn on the streets of Multiopolis to step up, and watch sharp
without knowing you are doing it.


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