Life — April 26, 1883 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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c Leverett was dragged down stairs, put into the cab, and driven to the station, before he realized that he st = —— — was not studying biology. Miss Clatterton’s sister VOL. I. APRIL 26, 1883. Jenny was, in Leverett’s eyes, even prettier than Slings- ir 7 = by’s idol, and Leverett found, before he got to New- i 1155 Broapway, New York. ak, that there were other studies more alluring than is . nology. Publisied every Thursday, $s a year in advance, postage free. The. young men escorted the two ladies to their ¢ Si s, 10 cents, i ae E aL: i . “Mee Subscribers who do not receive their copies will please home at Newark, and were asked to stay 2 see 1. notify the office at once. by Mr. Clatterton. After a pleasant evening their hos- = — pitable entertainers would not beat of heir le rie to “ ” o back to New York. In the morning Miss Jenny 7 LIVE AND LET LIVE. eid that she wished to go to New York shopping, and i. OM LEVERETT was pur- Mr. Leverett offered to escort her. Slingsby was left suing the study of biology at Newark. When Leverett bought the tickets to New of with great pertinacity. York, he remembered for the first time that he had Now, biology, although an forgotten to borrow any money from Slingsby, who d interesting and useful sci- had promised to meet him at the Astor House at six ence, is not immediately o'clock that they might dine together. Leverett rue- of remunerative, and Leve- fully put back in his pocket the thirty cents left him rett, although of simple and after paying for the tickets, considering how he should inexpensive tastes, found pull through the day with that amount. that making the two ends He thanked heaven, or rather Cyrus W. Field, for meet was a most difficult the Elevated Railway, when they arrived in New York, a process, and, eager stu- for even a moderate hack charge would have made it 1 dent as he was, he some- necessary for him to keep the carriage in waiting until , times looked with envy at_ Slingsby turned up with gold. The miseries and re his friend Slingsby, thesuc- shifts of that morning Leverett declares he cannot ban- " cessful young stock-broker, ish from his mind to this day ; not pleasant to escort who was able to make the a young lady to the picture galleries and shops, having ends meet, and roll up a only ten cents in one’s pocket. Although Miss Fanny ~ pretty penny besides, in mysterious operations upon was charming, he bade her farewell without sorrow at the street. Slingsby was of a frivolous nature, and it the house of the friend with whom she was going to being spring-time, his “ fancy turned to. lunch. There was no lunch for Leverett that day. He thoughts of love.” His s Sally Clat- walked feverishly yp and down the streets looking at the 2, terton, a pretty girl from Newark, was making a visit _ fine turnouts, He fazed with such envy at the people eat- “0, ol in Boston, and all Slingby's spare moments were spent with her. Slingsby’s voice no longer rang like a clarion at the board, and his ledger was daily eclipsed by a transit of the New Jersey Venus over its blue pages. In fact, as he confided to Leverett, he felt that if he did not get his Sarah’s hand, he would be a good, ing in the gay restaurants, that he could hardly re- strain an impulse to walk into Delmonico’s, order lun- cheon, and take the consequences. He was too sim- ple-mitided to think of pawning his silver watch. After an afternoon of hunger, he walked to the Astor House to meet Slingsby and dine with him, His m4 short sale. long walk and the air gave him a still keener appetite. for One day he came bursting into Leverett’s forlorn Six o'clock came, but no Slingsby. The slow clock S apartment, and found the biologist hard at his “’ology.” struck the half hour, and still no Slingsby. Finally at i “Miss Clatterton and her sister are going to New seven, he became desperate and went out upon the _ York on the eleven o'clock train ; I want you to come steps of the hotel that he might see his friend as soon along to talk to the sister ; mighty pretty girl. Only as he arrived. As he stood, eagerly scanning each seven minutes to get to the station. Come along.” new-comer, hesaw a large canvas sign on a little building “But I have only a few dollars in my pocket—my over the way, on which was printed in large letters : 5 things are not packed.” “Live and Let Live. A Square Meal for Ten Cents.” ms “Never mind, I have plenty of money ; we can buy Our starving biologist tore across the street and ex- Der shirts—come ahead. A cab is waiting at the door.” changed his last dime for a huge bowl of Indian meal ‘o he in comicbooks.com