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Show WHAT PUZZLED THE NEWSBOY He Didn't Understand Primary Causa of Trouble, but Motorman Could Have Told Him. It was a very busy hour on Forty-second Forty-second street, and the traffic "cops" were having their hands extremely full, relates the New York Sun. Just as things were starting along, after a complicated blockade, a little newsboy news-boy dropped a quarter, and darted out into the street after it, under the nose of a motorman who bad Just started his car. The indignant motorman threw on the brakes with a Jerk. As the car came to a sudden stop an automobile automo-bile directly behind it turned sharply to one side to avoid a collision. It skidded, the hood coming under the startled noses of a pair of dray horses. hors-es. One of the front tires blew up with a loud report. This was too much for the horses, and they Jumped forward together. In another minute the heavily loaded dray was careening down the slde- walk, the people scattering In terror. A lamp post was knocked over, and the dray, thrown violently In the other oth-er direction, upset, flinging a couple of heavy boxes through a brilliantly lighted display window. The broken electric lights fizzed for a minute, then the flimsy trimmings trim-mings of the window caught fire, and In a few minutes the clanging of the fire department was added to the uproar, up-roar, and the crowd extended for a full block in either direction. When the fire was out, and the wreckage was being cleared away, the newsboy, with his quarter safe in his pocket, turned away and started start-ed down the street, murmuring to himself: "Gee, I wonder what begun be-gun all dat fuss!" Good Milk. The returned fresh-air kid was telling tell-ing his mother of the wonders of the country. "And say, ma," he said, ' out at Angola An-gola they get milk from cows and its just as good milk as any." |