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"And can we slide down the ice-house like you used to do? And will Uncle Jimpson call up the doodle-bugs out of the ground like he did when you was a little girl?" "Listen!" cried Miss Lady suddenly starting up. "What is that?" From the far end of the street came the sound, "Wuxtry! Here's your Wuxtry! All about " "It's just the newsboy I was being like," said Bertie. "What's the matter?
Out they came, tumbling, pushing, jostling; greeting scowls and smiles with grins of insolent good-humor. In their hands were decorated walking-sticks and flags, ragged and tattered as if from long use in a heavy gale. Dignified old gentlemen dived among them in pursuit of top-hats; hysterical matrons hustled daughters into carriages and slammed the doors. "Wuxtry! Wuxtry!" shrilled the newsboys.
"Good-by, Aunt," she said, "and thank you ever so much for everything." The man in the street did not appear to know it, but a great crisis was imminent in New York journalism. Everything seemed much as usual in the city. The cars ran blithely on Broadway. Newsboys shouted their mystic slogan, "Wuxtry!" with undiminished vim. Society thronged Fifth Avenue without a furrow on its brow.
"Why, it's Ferd Stowing," said Billie, getting to her feet for a better view. "My, but he looks happy about something. I wonder what's up." The next moment Ferd Stowing, one of the best-liked boys in the town, came rushing up the steps like a whirlwind, and it did not take the girls long to find out "what was up." "Hooray!" he cried, flinging his hat high in the air. "Wuxtry!
As they turned a corner a small boy with a bundle of papers almost ran into them, and thrusting his papers up almost in Senor Constantio's face, shouted: "Wuxtry, wuxtry!" with deafening lung power. All at once he darted off, and at the same moment the inventor cried: "My watch! he has taken my watch! While he thrust his papers in my face he stole my watch!"
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