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I guess it's good. Come along if you're hungry." Limpy Jim followed Micky across Printing-House Square to a cheap restaurant on Nassau Street, between Ann and Beekman Streets, and they were soon partaking with relish of a breakfast which, as they were not very fastidious, proved abundantly satisfactory. "I've got some news," said Micky, after he had drained his cup of coffee.
I am sorry to bore you with family affairs; but it's rather rum the way Micky's fate has caught up with him, through his one weakness of laziness, and perhaps lying a little, when he was obliged to. How this affair came about so suddenly I can't say. Didn't like to ask her too many questions; and Micky, poor devil, faded from view directly he saw us coming.
Micky made a jest of it, and intimated that Rolf would have to "learn to do night work very soon." This was only one of the many things that showed how evil a place was now the orphan's home.
Here James Gilbert left the room, and went up to his own chamber. His words had excited hope in both Roswell and his mother. The former felt that it would be a satisfaction to him to learn that Dick had lost his situation, even if he failed to get it himself. The name of Micky Maguire is already familiar to the readers of "Ragged Dick."
"'What'll you take fur him? I says to Ike. "'Take fur him? he says. 'Whatever he'll bring. I ain't out nothin' on him. I splits three thousand with you to the race. "'You owe me a hundred 'n' thirty fur trainin', I says. 'I calls it off 'n' keeps the hoss. "'You've bought him, says Ike, 'n' goes back to the bettin' shed. "They take Micky to the hospital.
It takes three hundred bones to sit in. I've about decided it's too rich fur my blood, when next work-out day comes 'n' Hamilton works four furlongs, with Micky up, like a cyclone. That gets my circulation goin' 'n' I takes a shot at it. "'Who's burning this up on the ten mile wonder? says the sec. to me, when I'm payin' the entrance. 'The work seems a little coarse for my old friend Ike.
So you keep outside o' the ropes!" and then after a little by-play with Dave and Dolly, which made the hair of both rougher than ever, he said suddenly to Dave: "Well, and wasn't you frightened?" "Micky wasn't frightened," said Dave, discreetly evasive. He objected to pursuing the subject, and raised a new issue.
Rooney was driven to push him by direct questions. "For the tendher mercy, Micky Lavery, make me sinsible, and don't disthract me is the boy married?" "Yis, I tell you." "To Jack Dwyer's daughter?" "Yis." "And gev him a fort'n'?" "Gev him half his property, I tell you, and he'll have all when the owld man's dead."
Micky Hagan's was one of the receivin'-places for river-thievin'. He had boats to let, an' bought out an' out or advanced on the swag, just as you pleased; an' mostly you're in his debt, because you get into the way of swappin', an' he sets his own price on the thing you fancy. "Now, I've thought it all out, ma'am, many a time.
Micky swung his box from his shoulder, and, sinking upon his knees, seized his brush, and went to work scientifically. "Any news?" asked Gilbert, in a low voice. "Yes, mister, I've done it," said Micky. "Have you managed to trap him?" "Yes, I left him on his way to the station-house." "How did you manage it?" "I grabbed an old fellow's wallet, and dropped it into Dick's pocket.
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