tification, as he realized how easily he had permitted hi

e who is quite penniless feels helpless and apprehensive. Frank was unable even to p

to do?" he asked

of your uncle?" a

those who had saluted Percy and hi

e," he replied, r

before, did you?"

I did

what I t

the young Arab's tone, which led

's a dea

wha

Don't you unde

he did business

ck shrieked

treet!" he repeated. "You

to see that his new friend was right. So he said good-humo

gets hold of," continued the boot-

" thought Frank. "This boy

twenty-five cents, and he made me

r boy. "You're beginnin' bu

nk. "Do you know any

ough, and now that Frank had appealed to him for

ed, in a business-like to

answere

can yo

corn and potatoes, rid

goin' to do you no good in New York. Peopl

se I kno

ntin' corn and potatoes. Maybe yo

n New York. I can

ck boots, or

an l

up in either of them li

cents have been e

ught some evening

Frank; "I'd pay it back as soon as I'd sold my pa

I'd lend you the money myself, if I had it; but I've run out my ac

ou been in busin

ht years old; and I'm

t to wor

other both died, and I was l

en you were only eight years

es

ing, for I am fifteen,-a ye

started," said Dick, encouragingl

t doesn't require any capita

can smas

or that?" asked Fr

steamboat landin's, and when a chap comes by with a vali

you call sma

hat did you t

, not caring to displa

n get a chance to

try it

f, to-day," said Frank. "If I'd thoug

and if a gentleman asked you to carry his valise

ld," Frank

want me to," said Dick. "I shan't ha

h you

eets. Frank had a retentive memory, and stored away the information carefully. Penniless as he was, he was excited and ex

ke it much better than the count

y. "Sometimes I think I'll go West;-a l

ood deal of money

s with the farmers. Tom Harrison, one of my friends, went out six weeks

a good w

that. I'd like ri

but I've lived in the country all m

ly. "I've bummed around so much I'd like a good, stiddy hom

t that here?"

es I don't get but o

he city seemed more precarious and

work again," said

ing to sleep to-n

tter sleep at the Astor Hous

ooked p

an that, do y

seeing the flush on Frank's cheek. "You'll know as much about the city as I do befo

could only get work I'd soon earn it. You ca

face li

, though it aint a very good one. I

" asked Fran

th a blind man, soli

ean be

stores and countin' room

owly, "but I must do something. After

ck. "Maybe he'll go out this evenin'. His other boy