SHARP NEWSBOYS.
The newsboy who drew hiinselfto his full height and, peering up into the Sirdar's face, calmly offered for sale a copy of a book on the Khartoum campaign, is not the first of his class who has been " very smart" on an Edinburgh station platform*. The caustic wit,- Alexander Russel, the famous editor of the " Scotsman," was entering- a train one day, when a boy pressed him to buy that day's issue of his own paper. " No," said the great man, " but I'll give you a shilling for a copy of to-morrow's •Scotsman.'" Whereupon — it being a Friday — the boy at once whipped out of his basket a copy of t the "Weekly Scotsman," dated, of course, Saturday. Rußsel was hugely pleased.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6362, 17 December 1898, Page 6
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124SHARP NEWSBOYS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6362, 17 December 1898, Page 6
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