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Show A Coatly Dinner for a Hoy. Twenty-eight hours' labor is a pretty ! high price to pay for a New Year's dinner. But that is what a blue coated , messenger boy says that he had to give for the privilege of eating his dinner that day at home. There were two messengers who sat near me in a street car Saturday discussing their affairs in the breezy way peculiar to district messengers mes-sengers and newsboys. "You doin' time yet up in that Twenty, eighth street slaughter house?" "Yep." 1 "Get Crismus er New Year's off?" "Nop." "D'ju try?" "Yep. Told 'em my grandmother was sick, but 'twouldn't work. D'ju get off?" "Got off New Year's. Had turkey ter dinner. Got off four hours, but had to work four hours extra fer nothin' every day fer a week to make up fer it." "Gee! That's tough, ain't it? Well, I've got ter get off here. S'long." New York Star. |