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Little Watts I
"By FranK H. Stunt.
Copyright, Mby Frank II. Swoet.
NO nuittor bdw cold or stormy It
was Llltlo"Watt was always
waiting for Itlt papers In front
of tho Dally Lender office at
Imlf pnNt 4 In the niorniiig. It was
often stormy nnd always cold et that
hour In tho thriving and populous
Itocky mountain mining town In wblch
the leader was published, and Llttlo
Walts HvcmI a mile from the ofllce la a
poor wooden bouse ' noar one of the
great mluos,
I tntrt blm one' morning hurrying
down tbo stony, desertod, lihllifbted
street The wlDd was blowing keen
and cold, the olr was filled with fine,
I sleety snowflakes, and I thought when
I I saw Little Watts that the fates bod
not been kind to tho boy or he would
bare been wUrrn and snug la bed at
home sttbot bour.
But the Lender was publ!hohevcry
morning, and Little Watts bad regulur
. customers at whose doors be left bis
j papers before be hurried away to the
. early morning trains.
t He was ouly twelve yuan old end
small for bis years, aud be would u?r
ef be much larger 6r stronger. A great
bump between bis narrow shoulders
told a sorrowful story of s fall down s
long flight of tenement bouse stairs
when be was only two years old. ,
It was often my duty to count out to
the boys the papers as they cam 'from
the press. That Is bow I happened to
know Utile Watts.
Ills name was Clarence, but 1 never
heard blm called by any other uamo
than Little Watts.
I remember when I saw the boy aud
beard, bis nnmo for the first time. It
was the first morning I gave tb pa
pers out to the boys. The Leader that
morning contained one of the matters
of Important news that always Increase
the demand for tho papers, and the
moment the ofllce door was opened the
newsboys came pushing and scram
bling in, each eager to be first.
Suddenly the largest of" (he boys, a
low browed, thick lipped, stocky fallow,
begnn to beat the other boys back.
"Git Nek, fellers!" bs shouted. "Git
back, I tell ye! Ve're scrouglu' tbo life
out o' Utile Watts! Ya know be alius
gits bis papers fust Git back, nowl"
The other boys fell back, and out
from amcng then fame Little Watts,
bearing evidence of, having been pretty
severely "sorouiied.''
Ills bat had fallen off, and be limped
as be struggled forward. The rough
boy wbo bad befriended him In a way
so surprlnlug to me found bis bat aud
put It on the boy's bead, while be said:
"Alu't hurt, ore ye, WattsyT- No?
Well, that's good. Git yer papers now
and light out, for .they'll go like hot
cakes thin morula .
There stuyl next to the bouse la
wblch I boarded a small bouse contain
Ing two or throe rooms, wblch had not
been occupied for several weeks.
Ooe evening as 1 went homo I saw
cheap paper shades at the windows of
this llttlo tenement Smoke was rising
from the chimney, aud on the step of
the open door sat Little Watts playing
on a barnonlcon.
The dour was within three teet of
the street, and I stopped to say: How
do you do. Little Watts.? Are you going
to live bore?"
Tee. sir."
"Then we shall be, neighbors. I lire
next door."
"I'm glad of It sir." said Little Watts
politely. '
"You mnst come In and see me some
time." I snld. "I bare a good many
' "OIT BACK, I TELL XKl'1
books, and you may use any that you
like to read." - - '
A small, thin faced woman came to
the door and looked Inquiringly from
me to Little Watts.
He rose and said: "Mother, this 1
Mr. Hart of the Lender. You've heard
me speak about him."
. "Bo I hnve," said Mrs. Watts quick
ly. "The Lender folks are real good to
my boy, sir. He tells me about It, and
I'm very much obliged
The window of my room looked out
upon the house which the Watts fam
llv occunied -A dny or two after their
nrrlvnl I wu sitting In my open win
dow. The windows of the other holise
were also open, and through them
came tho sound of some one singing In
a wonderfully clear and sweet voice.
I laid down my book to listen. Tbs
words came distinct and beautiful:
'Flow gently, ,swt AftoH, among tby
gren bri
Plow gently; I'll ilng the a song In thy
praise."
Could it be Little Watts singing in
such a voice? While I looked and lis
tened 1 saw Llttlo Watts coming from
a well at the back of tbo bouse with a
pull of water.
I could not restrain my curiosity. As
be ciiine near my window I asked,
"Who Is that singing?"
"My sister Kllse," he answered eager
ly, bis face beaming.
"Hlio has a wonderful voice," I said.
"nasn't she, though?" exclaimed Lit
tle Watts, with more enthusiasm tuau
I bad ever before seen In blm.
"Did you ever hear any of those big
stagers r he went on.
"Yes."
"Can they slag say better than Ibo
csnr ,
"Well, they are much older than your
sister, and of course they are highly
trMped. How old Is your sinter?"
Sixteen."
Before many days I and others In
our neighborhood sat In the scantily
Hi, !!"!
I ASKED, "WHO IB THAT SIXOtNQr"
furnished living room of Mrs. Watts'
house and beard Ellse sing.
Mrs. WStts was a widow, and Ellse
and Clarence were ber only children.
A small pension partly supported their
wants, and Mrs. Watts and Ellse took
la plain sewing when they could get It,
but Little Watts' earnings from the
sale of bis papers were their cblcf
source of lucouie.
It seemed to me that they might live'
a little more comfortably, but one day
Little Watts confided a secret to me.
"We're saving for Ellse," be said.
"She's going to be a big singer some
day Sfter she's goue away and studied
and had! a chnnce. I'm saving up for
that"
This was the reason why Little
Watts wore such shabby clothes, and
this was why thetr borne was so poor
and bare and their table so scantily
supplied. , This was' why Little Watts
walked the streets fa all, kinds of
weather, crying his papers at ao bour
when other boys slept
One, two years passed! ( was still la
the Leader office. Little' Watts still
came before daylight for' bis papers
and was called Little Watte' Still, for
he was not noticeably larger stron
ger than whoa I saw blm first! He
still lived next door to my own titftne,
and Ellse was going away.
She had been singing in church'
choirs and at concerts, and some ladles
Who had become interested In ber, but
wbo were umtble to lend her moaey
for her study, had given her a 'benefit
concert, which the Lender bad widely
advertised without charge on occouut
of Little Watts.
But tnost of the money that waa to
pay for Elise's two years of study in
the east had been or would-be earned
by Little Watts.
"But when I come back he shall
worlc no more," Ellse said to me, with
the tears In ber eyes. "I shall earn it
then; Sml he shall go to New York to
study drawing and engraving. He's
so' eager to learn It you, know, but he
won't say mudb'Sbottt It or even think
Sboat it until r begin' to earn money".
Quite a little 'coinpnny of t went to
the station to'see Ellse' off. Of course
Little Watts was there! His large eyes
were shining' through their tears, and
his white'face'was wreathed! in smiles,
though I' knew his heart ached with
sorrow at the" thought' of two- years
without her.
But the boy cried 'his papers- luef as
loudly and cheerily as evef next day
tho Leader In the 'uidrnhig,' when1 day
was breaking, and the Timecr'at night,
when the day was goue;'
I often met him hurrying arotind' the
corners of almost deserted streets or
paying a last visit to the hotels,' Where
he hoped to sell another paper' at an
hour when ' all other newsboys'' bad
gone home.
Every paper he sold counted, not for
himself, but Tor Ellse. He and : bis
mother lived, upon the pension and ber
sewing. ,
Every month a draft to the amount
of all of Little Watts earnings went to
New York to Ellse, and every week ahe
wrote encouraging letters of what ber
teachers said about her voice and of
her hopes for the future.
"I know they'd have to say ber voice
wasn't anything common," Little Watts
said proudly to me when the first of
ber letters came. "I knew she'd aston
ish 'em!"
Twice the mountains changed from
green to white and ' from ' white to
green. They were changing to white
again when Ellse wrote the letter that
told when she would start for borne.
Little Watts brought me the letter to
read. '
"I shall reach borne about the last
day of October," she wrote, "You need
not send me any more money. I am
afraid you have sent me too much now.
It Is time for me to begin paying it
back to you. You must be bere next
year and k at borne working and earn
lng money for you. If I'm not too
tired, I shall sing for you and mother
the very night I come. I'm so aoxious
to show you bow well your money has
been spent!"
She was delayed a little and came on
the third day of November. It was on
the afternoon of the first day or pat
K month that the man whose duty ft now
was to give out the papers said to me:
"Little yattsf jlldt show up for bis
papers this morning. It's Uie first
morning he's failed to c,ome since I've
been here. J wonder If he s slckr ,
"Not that 1 know of,"-1 renjjed.
was a terribly stormy morning. ou
know,"
weather has never made any
AiffercHce with blm before. He's been
6a band the first one many a morning
worse tlmu this. Poor little chap!
How he's escaped pneumonia as long
as bo has Is a wonder to me.
The sun bad not shone for three
days. First ralg and then snow hnd
fallen nearly all the time. A fierce cold
wind had swept down from the moun
tains. The barren town bad never
seemed so gloomy and cheerless and
desolate to me as It did now.
At noon I wept to see Little Watts.
His mother came to the door and said
briefly' and In a low tone, for Little
Watts was In the next room and the
door was open f '
"ne's real sick. The doctor Is afraid
It's going to be pneumouia. I've tried
to keep blm In tbo last three days, but
he would go out You see why."
Her eyes were full of tears as she
pointed toward the corner of the room.
There stood a shining upright piano,
wlttf a stool of crimson velvet be
fore tt ' '
"He made the first paymeot on them
yesterday," Mrs. Watts said. "He was
so anxious to have them bere for
Ellse." .
"Well, he's a perfect little hero, Mrs.
Watts," I said under my breath, but
heartily. "I believe be will be sble to
fight off even the pneumonia for the
sake of Ellse."
'. ne was worse the next day.
"ne'U never be' any better," aald the
doctor In. the afternoon when I met
him coming out of the shabby little
house. '
In the evening Little Watts said In a
whisper:
"She'll be bere In the morning, won't
sne? w -.. 5, ,.,T.
"At 8 o'clock,' I said.
"Then I'll hear ber sing again," be
answered.
The wind died away in the night
The Bkles cleared. All of the distant
ranges, the nearer bills and the streets
UTTL1 WATTS LOOKED VP.
of the town were white with snow
when the sun came out the next morn
ing. - " ' ,
Ellse came at 8 o'clock. LltUe Watts
pulled himself up on his pillows to
meet her and welcome her.
There. was no sign In his eyes or
face of sorrow in his heart at this end
tag of all his own hopes and plans for
the future. He met Ellse with a smile
and with tearless eyes. For a moment
she thought it must all have been a
mistake about his belngso ill. ,
"Now go and sing for me," he said
after a few minutes.
They rolled his bed to the door that
he might see .her at the new plana
Ellse sat .before it with streaming eyes
and sang the little ballads and the old
songs he bad loved so well.
"There was one," he whispered,
"about 'the shining shore and 'my Fa-
!tberhath many mansions.' Won't you
sing that Ellse?"
She sang it wlthi trembling voice, and
while she was singing Little Watts
looked up with wide open eyes as If
he were gazing at something wonder
ful that be could' not see and tlten
sank' back; bis eyes closed forever.
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