Within forty-eight hours after the find was advertised the rightful owner appeared, received the money, and presented the boy with a five dollar bill and a good watch.
“Keep this watch to remind you that if you will follow up your honest beginning, you will not only be a rich man, but a good one.”
The object of relating this incident is the sequel.
The big head-line compliments in the newspapers; the many little presents and congratulations Bundle received had a surprising effect upon his mother. She was proud of being the boy’s mother. Her sons and daughters posed on the corners and pointed with pride to their brother.
Not only did this act have a good effect on the boy and the family, but upon the entire street, as the remark is often heard, “this is the street that has the honest newsboy.”
CHAPTER XIX.
There are many interesting cases coming to the attention of persons interested in newsboys, and they all have a tendency to awaken sympathy.
Two little boys, ages nine and ten, were brought to the president one morning by an officer of the association. They were accused of fighting, “almost to a finish.”