Show j I l' l r An Accident l j I ON ON the of December 1895 about r past half past eight o'clock in the morning a little boy whose white pinched face did aid not testify of an overabundance of ofF F f food there food there was however a look of refinement about his large dark-brown dark j J eyes eyes made all the larger by their eager r hungry look clothes ragged hands not nott t too too o oclean clean and stiff with cold was calling calling call call- ing g i in a thin piercing voice Paper See Bee or World The people who were on the street on Christmas day hurried on intent on oni i I t reaching a warm fire as quickly a an as possible possible possible pos pos- sible sible all unconscious of poor little Tom who knew that it was a happy h holiday liday by the bright shop windows Indeed had you asked him he wo would ld I d have told yo you that h he did not like ike holidays holidays holidays holi holi- days because on them days trade is awful dull kr He remained on his corner corner selling only two papers until past half-past eleven eleven when the street being comparatively deserted he sauntered off to look for his II pal When way half-way across the street he heard the merry jingle of sleigh bells and the happy laughter of children Looking up he saw a two-seated two sleigh filled with boys and girls and fur robes drawn by two spirited horses This sight reminded him of the time when his father and mother were alive and they were all three so happy and how they used to go out to Grandpas Grandpa s severy every Christmas to lo eat turkey and plum pudding These and many other J t thoughts ough s were were passing rapidly through his active brain when he saw a brother 1 news-boy news two years younger than himself himself himself him him- self and with whom he had often shared his scanty supper of a bun and perhaps j ja a frozen apple picked out of the ash 1 barrel behind a grocery store attempt to follow him unaware of coming J danger At a glance Tom saw the situation and shouted II Stand back t Benny dont don't yer see them horses 1 But his warning came too late 1 The sleigh dashed past A crowd gathered to look with horror and pity upon the mangled remains of an inn inno innocent cent unsuspecting little dog I. I |