"The story!" shouted the children.
"I was walking up Broadway. This street is always crowded with people, as well as with carts and carriages."
"I have seen that street," said Tommy.
"Now you keep still a few minutes, Tommy, if you can," interposed Mrs. Lee.
"At the corner of Wall Street—"
"I know where that is," exclaimed Tommy.
"At the corner of Wall Street there was a man with a kind of cart, loaded with apples and candy, which he was selling to the passers by. Suddenly there came a stage down the street, and ran into the apple cart."
"I saw the very same thing done," added Tommy, with his usual self-important air.
"Keep still, Tom Woggs," said Charley Green.
"The apples were scattered all over the sidewalk; yet the man picked up all but one of them, though he was very angry with the driver of the stage for running against his cart."