GOT TO STAND IT.
On onejof the hottest corners of Woodward avenue at high noon yesterday, a small boy with a bootblack's kit sat under the full blaze of a sun pouring down for all it was worlh. The boy perspired, roasted, blistered, and almost melted, but he had stuck there for half an hour, when a lady: " Little boy, aren't you afraid of being sunstruck ? "
, " Yes, ma'am," was the prompt reply. "Then why don't you get into the ishade ? " " I can't." ° Did anyone tell you to wait here P " "No mann, but "I'm doing it on my own hook. It's awful hot and I'm mjst dead, but Ive got to stand it." 'She looked to see if he was tied, and was about to go on and regard him as the son of a brutal father in a saloon around the corner, when the lad explained: " There he is now J That boy up there is the chap I am waiting for, and I had to sit out hero to see him when he turned the corner. He's the feller that called my sister a poke-eyed rabbit, and I'm going to jump in on him and lick him ! most to death ! I wish you'd hold my box so I can get the bulge on him afore he i suspects anything.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3752, 6 January 1881, Page 3
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221GOT TO STAND IT. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3752, 6 January 1881, Page 3
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