Son of Scottish Wing's Gets a

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 86

Son of Scottish Wing's Gets a

FisrM's I oflg:i''ar.

Everybody of the Xow York Bowery knows "K-cotty," the panhandler, but it looked on Friday night as though he would! not kno.v a bed — a situation in which ignorance ; s grie^-.;u«. In cold language, it v,as up io S-otcy to find the price or step down from his lof f y altitude as a professio»u.l mail.

Scotty"- r:-il name is Alexander Kennedy, or, \, li-ru he is drunk, Alexander Stuart Kenrody — an unfortunate scion of tho kuvjriy house of Stuart, Scotland — and he is frequently drunk. On Friday night ho telt himself degraded in his own oyia — he had e lined only fi\e vhi-'kiei ziwl one beer al' o\ening. His usual emolument is riiie whi-k'e*. a ftsw, and a bod.

Wandering pa~t various "largest pchconer on the "Bowery"' saloons he bethought him"l? of the honest life. N^aar to r.n e;+aS lishaient where London's latent \vorl<3wonder tragedy \\ a^ c.iu-ing thrill he ptoopad, picked up ■somothing eageily. then.

-iqhed. '[Ton in inspii aticn crime to hm, and he shook hands with himself, using a free hand and one attached to a good a raft which h.i had thoughtfully hid fioni the cnltf inside his waistcoat.

In front of the Park row restaui-ant nnnex — pork chops, side dish and coffee, 3Gc— lie paused for strength and to spot a victim. He chose, an aristocrat, a reguia*"ten dolla an' take it, I'm ruined," wearer. Be passed. ' Seotty went at his heels.

Suddenly, when in the shadow. Seotty fell to the pavement with a whoop. ThY bloated overcoat-wearer turned. Seotty arose to the perpendicular with a foolish look on his face and a fat purse in ms hand.

The looks speedily turned to one of guilt when he beheld the keen stare in thb eyes of the plutocrat. He shook, he was so nervous. Then, v»'ith a get-thee-behind-me-Satan air, he stammered to the overcoatjrcarer.

"Sir, is — this your purse?" "By thunder ! that's just what it is. Thought I dropped something a second ago," nia'king a grab. "Forgot there was a kVJe in this coat pocket. Thanks, oid man", thanks- '

"Don't mention it, sir, doit ! — I can understand," stammered Seotty. '"It would seem a great deal +o me. feir, in my present unfortunate condition, but when I caught your eye I remembered mother, and I'm honest--"

"Here is sometliing for your honesty." said the stranger, apparently moved, and tenderly feeling the fa,t purse. He passed a half dollar.

Ho hurried on.;, so did Seotiy, though in a- different direction.

Belf a. block along there were loud curses beard. The stranger had stopped, and pvJfed out of the purse a barana sk^n, which was all that was in it.

Over his second drink in Mike Eurico's salcm Seotty was murm'-.ring, "Honesty is great when it's planted."

That was how a defendant of Scottish k ; ngs won his bed Friday night, and saved Ili3 reputation. — New York World.