Show The Sandman Story V V F FOR TONIGHT V V V V Joes Joe's Journey V T The e day dRY was ch chilly ny A watery mist mist- hung over the street making it ft slippery A thick fog drifted down the wide avenues On a box in front of ot Smiths Smith's grocery sat disconsolate disconsolate disconsolate dis dis- dis- dis consolate Joe He ITe was was tIred wet hungry and sleepy And worse than all he had no home The dingy attic h he had called home existed d for him hini no longer That morning his uncles uncle's wife had driven him out Into tho the street for tor having accidentally broken her favorite rite chair V Get out of ot here her grunted grunte the tIle as he V came out of ot his with door a big box on on his shoulders I r dont don't want boys 10 loafing about my II V VV V place V V V V Joe shuffled shuttled on oh ori do down ri the street I His sho shoes s w were re spongy with water and his cap running a a. stream am down his hii n neck k Just then V a a handsome I carriage drawn by a pair of ot ing bay horses dash dashed d UP UD to the pave pave- ment meat Out of ot it stepped a lady rl ri rich hV h.- V ly ly dressed Disappearing within the store she came out in a a few min mm- utes Then entering the carriage she drove away t After fter the sound of ot horses horses' f feet V et had died away Joe looked across the pavement On Its Its' l ledge e dg-e he s 's saw saty iv something something something some some some- thing which glittered brightly and on on picking it if up he re that that that-it it was wag wasa waga I a valuable pin piri It It- was of at gold a arid d set with diamonds rubies and ent- ent V VV I V I V My what riches said Joe to himself That lady lost it V I 1 will find tind out out where she Ahe lives l' l Say mister V he shouted In through the door to the r nian where does that lady wh who l just drove up here live Jive V V Why that's Mrs Van V Vossen laughed d the man She Jives Jives' lives up Riverside Drive But the likes of you never venture ventures up ip that way V Joe Toe paid no attention to the V mans man's talk In his iS hand lay the cross gleaming brightly In the r rain m Should l he sell sen It and it and buy himself a a. w warm rm suit a a good dinner and a a shelter r. r or should he return it to the OWner owner Aw gee he said to to himself I 41 Imay 1 may be awfully poor but I I. I am not going to be e a thief So here here- goes goes goes' V a t trin lp UD ut to the millionaires millionaires' homes I i Vt i I I 1 I I It was was a long walk past busy stores store and arid ge preat t factories s acro across s P parks ks and into dingy alleys alles Presently the streets streets' were wide and Statues about on the lawns Flower beds were on the walks and rows a of trees made the places seem seem almost like country My but Its It's grand remarked Joe But here I is ig my iny number I He stumbled up the wide steps and f pushed the bell The do door r was thrown i open and in the entrance stood a butin but- but Jer in uniform I found this it belon belongs s to the l lady dy stammered Joe Toe Out of the j I side door swep swept the lady herself hersel Why it is my cross she exclaimed ex ex- ex- ex V J l claimed I 1 did not know t t had dropped How kind of you to bring it my lad lad V V I It dropped at the grocery store I said Joe In In a faint voice for he was I getting weak for tor lack lacle of food I Irot rot got your name from the man man Then he tumbled a white helpless heap at her ter te fee v V l t tV V VV V V When he ha woke oke he was was was' in a soft sott b d In daInty 4 to the lady was bending over him with V tears in V her pretty eyes The cross you brought back was given me by my son He HeI is dead V now she said softly but you must V stay here nere and be bemy m boy In his ls place S So Sc Joe r remained in his his beautiful new home V |