A well-dressed youth stopped a tattered newsboy and asked him : "Do you think 1 could sell papers as 'easily as you do?" The newsboy's reply was emphatic and philosophic. "Well, do you,think you can held three dozen papers in one hand, lick three or four bigger boys with the other, while' yer keeps two more off with yer feet, and yell last edishun at the same time?"
"No, I liardly think I could do that," said the man. "Then yer'd be no good in tlie news line. Better get your people to,'prentice ver to something light,"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 November 1928, Page 2
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