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You see, they didn't understand him, so they called him a "bad one," and, being from the East and not one of themselves, "a New York gutter snipe." But, for all that, the name stuck. Up and down through the Rockies it was Toddles.
Mind you, now, if I catch you, or hear of you abusing a youngster again, it's in jail you'll certainly be!" As Baizley slunk away, Mr. Hand came up with Toddles in his arms. The little one was still shaking with sobs, and his tear-stained face looked so white and pitiful that Will felt like going after Baizley and giving him another thrashing.
It was a white, drawn face that Toddles lifted up each time he started on again miserably white, except where the blood kept trickling from his forehead. And then Toddles' heart, stout as it was, seemed to snap. He had reached the station platform, wondering vaguely why the little building that loomed ahead was dark and now it came to him in a flash, as he recognized the station.
But I love children, and Four-pence a week is Four-pence. Come here, Toddles and Poddles. Toddles was the pet-name of the boy; Poddles of the girl.
Any kind of a job, no matter what, just so it was real railroading, and so a fellow could line up with everybody else when the pay car came along, and look forward to being something some day. Toddles, with time, of course, grew older, up to about seventeen or so, but he didn't grow any bigger not enough to make it noticeable!
He's the stuff they're made of! You can see it sticking out all over him! He's only selling peanuts now till he grows up and " Toddles put down his basket and planted himself before the conductor. "You pay for those bananas," said Toddles in a low voice which was high. "When'll he grow up?" continued Hawkeye, peeling more fruit. "I don't know you've got me.
"Oh, Grigson," said the C.O. pleasantly, "the Wing have just rung through to say they want that raid done at once, so you might get your man up toute suite." Toddles was exactly halfway through his fish.
This being so, it is rather as if somebody said, 'I have risked my life in fire and pestilence to find my way to the music hall, or, 'I have fasted forty days in the wilderness sustained by the hope of seeing Totty Toddles do her new dance. And there is something rather more subtle involved here.
In another hour now he'd be up in the dispatcher's room at Big Cloud for his nightly sitting with Bob Donkin. He could see Bob Donkin there now; and he could hear the big dispatcher growl at him in his bluff way: "Use your head use your head Hoogan!" It was always "Hoogan," never "Toddles."
Coupled with the stunted growth that nature in a miserly mood had doled out to him, none knew better than himself that the name of "Toddles," keeping that nature stuff patently before everybody's eyes, damned him in his aspirations for a bona fide railroad career. Other boys got a job and got their feet on the ladder as call-boys, or in the roundhouse; Toddles got a grin.
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