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Show NEWSBOY "BENNY". 8TRIKES LUCK. He Wishes Some One Would Pick Up Another An-other of His Quarters. While the clerks - in the uptown office were busy one evening taking in the copy of advertisements for the next day's paper, a silver quarter was rattled upon the glass top of the window where papers are sold, and a shrill piping noice that seemed to come np through the floor said: "Gimme twelve cents' worth of extras." A clerk looked toward the window, and saw a tiny hand tapping impatiently , on the glass, and, leaning far over, the clerk saw the body of a wee newsboy against the counter. Just then Undertaker Dieclnnan, who had handed in a death notice, seized the change that the clerk rattled out upon the glass plate at .the window and bolted out of the door. Another clerk went to the . and counted out copies of the exto''" the wee newsboy. He saw no money on the counter and asked the little fellow for the pay for the extras. The lad began to cry. He said that he had flung a silver quarter on the counter and wanted his change. A hasty investigation was made, and led to the discovery that the undertaker, in his hurry, had carried off the newsboy's news-boy's quarter with his own change. The lad was "Benny" Buehler, one of the brightest newaboys who sell extras. "Benny," said tho clerk, "that gentleman gentle-man took your quarter by mistake. You go and tell him that and see what he will do." Benny trotted around to the undertaker's under-taker's home in Twenty-first street, and a pleasant mannered woman met him at the door and took out her pocketbook and got a quarter for him as soon as she heard his story. A customer was in the uptown office when Benny got back with a face wreathed with .smiles to pay for his papers. "Here's another quarter for you, my little man," the customer said, diving down into his pocket for a silver piece and patting the boy on the head. The next day Undertaker Dieckman came into the office in a hurry and threw a quarter on the counter. "I walked off with more money yesterday yes-terday than I was entitled to," he said cheerily; "here it is. I heard When I got home that it belonged to a newsboy. This makes fifty cents he will ha-c received, re-ceived, but it's all right." The newsboys in the neighborhood got to talking of Benny's luck, and the story reached somebody in the Grand hotel, near the uptown office. This man called Benny into the hotel and had a talk with him. Benny came to the office the next night and told about the interview. This is how he told it: " 'Is yon the little snoozer as had a , fellow take your quarter by mistake? says the man. , 'Well, you was in hard luck, boy. Here's a dollar fer you,' and he takes me by the collar and says, 'Now get out of here, and don't let me ketch yon having that happen agin.' "New York Sun. ' |