"There, you'll be rustling for your supper, and
you'll find boys hunting jobs thick as men at a ball game, and lots of
them with dads to furnish their room and board."
Junior hesitated, but Mickey excused himself and without having been told
what to do, he accomplished half a day's work for Mrs. Harding, then began
some of Peter's jobs and afterward turned his attention to hearing
Peaches' lesson and setting her new copy. When Junior paid his fare Monday
morning, Mickey, judging by the change he exhibited, realized that both
his mother and father had given him, to start on, a dollar to spend.
Mickey would have preferred that he be penniless. He decided as they ran
cityward that the first thing was to part Junior from his money, so he
told him he would be compelled to work in the forenoon, and for a while in
the afternoon, and left him to his own devices on the street, with a
meeting-place agreed on at noon.
When Mickey reached the spot he found Junior with a pocket full of candy,
eating early peaches, and instead of hunting work, he had attended three
picture shows.
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