Show kept the Least for himself three ragged ed newsboys were trying to sell tho the earlier editions of the afternoon papers A man carrying a arge basket of fine 1 oranges on his shoulder passed close by the motion of 11 his body loosened one of the biggest and ripest and it fell to the ground the ina man kept on not noticing or caring for the loss the orange lay upon the pavement for far about halt half a minute unseen then the largest of the three ragged urchins spied it and with a cry of delight he be ran over 1 and picked it up it was natural na tural to suppose that he would woul I proceed to eat it all himself but instead of doing so he called callea his companions and exhibited his find they eyed it greedily without any request from them for a share bhare in the coveted fruit the finder divided the orange into three parts and gave his fellow newsboys each a part the smallest part he reserved for himself it was only a small thing in itself yet it proved I 1 hought bought that there was something noble hidden under the ragged garments of that little urchin new nev york recorder |