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Show Oil ti," roar end of a big empty truck that went rumi'iiug u,o the liowe;-.' the .I her col. I mornihg there perched a r.ir:r"o. I riyiil e ved i.,o,-thl:ick. lie had his'diniiniit'ive "kit" under his sru. and as he jolted along he knocked his ianiin feel together to keep them from freezing in the frosty air. Also he ma !e disrespect fid and tsnhecopaijig gestures at his h-ss foilnneiie fellows, who were trudg';:;g along the sidevralks or s'jMid'ng h!vering on the corners. At (iraiid slieet there was a Bowery 'hi'ji.'' Team?, w.-igons and street -curs -'.1 themselves tangled together with much alacrity ami dispatch, wide their drivers sw:e at each other ctlndv, and delighted small ho;. s volunteersd shrill advice from the outside. out-side. The. bootblack's truck was in the "midst, of the "jam." A not her truck pushed ap closely in its rear. The etui of t he p,.'e siruck the bootblaek sav-aaelv sav-aaelv in the side jp.d lie fell to the p'-iVOKient. They jdeked him uji and y,';.k hi mi to a nearby drug store, liven :'s thev laid !d:;i down again he gti?ped .nice and dii'd- ijxeept for a lew covipers. ids r-e. k-ts were emntv. No ene'km.w anything of him. ami fle re SV;.,. tA.i-e.iijiely ii' i.Athod of j.hmtili-eatien. j.hmtili-eatien. lie "l.ad dropped ou? e.f the city's bfe as smhlnily and with, as HtHe stir a.-; a starved fijirirrow ill. -it is hit with a sbme ami fail.-j irio the 'p.ier. I ; ! i hi' i.arents or friends? .No one Uv.t v. Ai-par- roiy. in this citv of a thousand costly chan-hes. no one cared. i"i:o b---v h.til in,, been so f-.r wrong whvn, mvint-d osi hia Miu-k, he had C;-o.ed over his "':-.s fftu tr.it : C'-m-i:e',... ,r.i .foot, b"!' he had ::.!den Hii:;i::h.t into a land w her" Vr is ni-iih: i- e.tld n-r hunger, nor ivg'"!-ness ivg'"!-ness ma-v. i epin. And thev aie with us still. |