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The pay would indeed be small, but, expended economically, Fosdick thought he could get along on it, receiving his room rent, as before, in return for his services as Dick's private tutor. Dick determined, as soon as his education would permit, to follow his companion's example. "I don't know as you'll be willin' to room with a boot-black," he said, to Henry, "now you're goin' into business."
"Well," said Dick, "I haven't attended many. When I was a boot-black I found it interfered with my business, and so I always declined all the fashionable invitations I got." "You'd have made a sensation," said Fosdick, "if you had appeared in the costume you then wore." "That's what I was afraid of. I don't want to make a sensation. I'm too modest."
"Respectable, Dick," suggested Fosdick. "Yes, that's what I mean. I didn't always want to be a boot-black, so I worked hard, and with the help of Professor Fosdick, I've got up a little way. But I'm goin' to climb higher." "I am very glad to hear it, my young friend," said Mr. Whitney. "It is always pleasant to see a young man fighting his way upward.
I was boot-black for the captain, mates, and carpenter, bottle-washer for the cook, and chamber-boy for the men for it was mine to swab out the forecastle, and wait upon the sailors generally. Oh! it was a terrible life. I was well punished for my one act of filial disobedience well rewarded for my aspirations and longings for the sea.
"I don't like the firm, nor the business. I wish I were in Mr. Rockwell's." "Well," said Gilbert, "perhaps I can get you in there." "Has the boot-black left?" "He's found another place," said Gilbert, smiling at what he regarded as a good joke. "You don't mean to say he has left a place where he was earning ten dollars a week?" said Mrs. Crawford, in surprise.
His nature was a noble one, and had saved him from all mean faults. I hope my young readers will like him as I do, without being blind to his faults. Perhaps, although he was only a boot-black, they may find something in him to imitate. And now, having fairly introduced Ragged Dick to my young readers, I must refer them to the next chapter for his further adventures.
Crawford's only brother. He, too, was not unlike his aunt and cousin, and all three combined to hate and despise Dick, whom Mrs. Crawford saw fit to regard as her son's successful rival. "How's the boot-black, Cousin James?" asked Roswell, on the evening succeeding that which Dick had passed at Mr. Rockwell's. "Putting on airs worse than ever," replied Gilbert. "Mr.
They'll do her good," and Dick slipped half a dollar into Tom's hand. "Thank you, Dick. She'll like them, I know, but you oughtn't to give so much." "What's half a dollar to a man of my fortune?" said Dick. "Take care of yourself, Tom. I must hurry back to the store." Roswell was already gone. His pride would not permit him to stand by while Dick was conversing with a boot-black.
"A boot-black mustn't use good grammar, and a newsboy must swear a little, or he wouldn't be natural," explained Geordie, both boys ready to fight gallantly for their favourites.
That is an offence against the statute, and you know it, and an honest man, whether clergyman or boot-black, never descends to that. Besides, the robbery was committed, according to this account, more than an hour after the night train had gone to which your supposed relative was hastening.
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