BOY WANTED.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1183, 24 October 1882, Page 4

BOY WANTED.

Thebe is a Gospel tent at the corner | of Michigan Avenue and Fourihstreet, and on Sunday evening there is considerable passing in and out on : the part of pedestrians. Last Sunday evening a boy of fourteen who had just left the tent encountered a stranger, who stopped him and enquired, “ Say, hub, what sort of a performance is going on in there r “ Purty good thing,” was the reply. “I’d kinder like to see the fat woman and the living skeleton and the Albino children once more, but I’m purty near strapped. Is there any way 1 kin work in r” , “Us boys crawl under the canvas.” “ Anybody around to knock you stiff?” « Never saw anybody. 111 show you where to go under.” “By the hohey, I’ll try it: it's no use to throw away a quarter when you kin beat a side show. ’ The boy took him round behind the tent and saw him safe under, and then crossed the street and sat down. He waited just exactly three minutes, and then the stranger came out of the tent by the door. He looked up and down the street, carefully scanned every youngster about him, and finally said to a bootblack,

“ Bub, I’m looking for a youth about two heads taller than you—peaked nose, brown straw hat, hair cut short. I want to see him so awful bad for about a minute, that I’ll give you half a dollar if you can find him i.tbUnd here."—“ Detroit Free Press. ’