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 "Uncle Fred looked after it for about a second, and then he shrugged his shoulders, 'Let's go in and buy that rose,' he said.

"Just as we turned toward the curb, a little newsboy, the very littlest one I ever saw, jumped off of it and started to run across the street. I hadn't noticed him before, and he started so quickly, yelling his papers, that I turned suddenly and stumbled against him, and he went sprawling into the mudmud. [sic]

"I was never so surprised in all my life, and just stood staring, with my mouth open. Uncle Fred and Miss Kathleen turned at the sound of the fall, and I pointed to where the little fellow was scrambling to his feet, and gasped, 'I knocked that little boy down!'

"Uncle Fred looked at me indignantly. 'Well,' he said, severely, 'I'm sure that's nothing to brag of. He isn't more than half as big as you are.' Then he called the boy and gave him a quarter. 'You must excuse the young lady there,' he said, pointing to me; 'She's from the country, and is sort of savage yet; but you needn't be afraid—I'll see that she doesn't do it again.'

"The boy grinned and shoved the money into