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Title: A Juvenile Joe Miller Author: Falconbridge [More Titles by Falconbridge] We observed a small transaction last Wednesday noon, on Hanover street, that wasn't so coarse for an urchin hardly out of his swaddling clouts. He was a cunning-looking little fellow, and poking his head into a shoe shop, he bawls out in a very keen, fine, silvery voice-- "S-a-a-y, Mister-r-r--" "Eh?--what?" says the shop-keeper. "Somebody's got your boots out here!" Supposing, of course, that somebody was pegging away with a bunch of his wares at the door, Lapstone rushes out and cries-- "Where?" "There," says the shaver; "they're there--somebody's got 'em--hung up 'long your window there." Lapstone seized a box lid to give the juvenile joker a flip, but he scooted, grinning and ha! ha!-ing in the most provoking strain. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |