![]() ![]() ![]() "Wuxtry! Big fire! Dozen people burned to death! Here ye are! Wuxtry! Full account of de big f-i-r-e!" Jimmy could not stop long to talk. "Wuxtry! Wuxtry!" yelled Jimmy, for that was how he and the other boys pronounced the word "Extra." "What's the extra about?" asked a well-dressed man, stopping Jimmy. But of all who cried none shouted louder than this same Jimmy Small, and none was more active in rushing here and there with papers. The lads, ragged little chaps, were rushing at all in whom they saw possible customers, thrusting the papers in their very faces, a fierce rivalry taking place whenever two of the boys reached the same man at the same time. ![]() "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Full account of de big f-i-r-e! Here ye are! Wuxtry! Woild, Joinal, Sun, Telegram! Here ye are, mister! Git de latest wuxtry! Wuxtry! Wuxtry!" Jimmy Small was only one of a dozen newsboys crying the same thing in City Hall Park, New York. ![]()
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