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"Same as you." "Cup o' coffee and beefsteak," ordered Dick. These were promptly brought, and Johnny attacked them vigorously. Now, in the boot-blacking business, as well as in higher avocations, the same rule prevails, that energy and industry are rewarded, and indolence suffers. Dick was energetic and on the alert for business, but Johnny the reverse.
At last came the boot-blacking parlor, late nineteenth century, commercial, practical, convenient, and an important factor in civic aesthetics. Not that the parlor is beautiful in itself. It is a cave without architectural pretensions, but it accomplishes unwittingly an important mission: it removes from public view the man who is having his shoes shined.
"Maybe not," said Mickey. "It would be a good joke if he should lose his place and have to go back to boot-blacking again." "I wish he would," said Micky, fervently. "It 'ould cure him of puttin' on airs." "If, for example, his employer should be convinced that he was a thief, he would discharge him." "Do you know him, mister?" asked Micky, looking up suddenly. "Yes." "Is he a friend of yours?"
"I suppose he'll be crowing over me," thought Roswell, bitterly, judging from what would have been his own feeling had the case been reversed. "I hope he'll have to go back to boot-blacking some day. I wish mother'd buy me a gold watch and chain. There'd be some sense in my wearing it."
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