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THE POOR IN GREAT  CITIES
 

way in which they held together, back to back, against the w^orld,
as it were, had a different storj^ to tell. Their mother died, and
their father, Avho Avorked in a gas-house, broke ux^ the household,
unable to maintain it.    The boys, eleven and thirteen years old.
 

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A Warnn  Corner for  Newsboys on a Cold   Night.
 

went out to shift for themselves, while he made his home in a Bow¬
ery lodging-house. The oldest of the brothers was then earning
three dollars a Aveek in a factory; the younger was selling news¬
papers and making out. The day I first saAv him he came in from
his route early—it was raining hard—to get dry trousers out for