XVI. THE DOCTOR'S VERDICT
XVII. AN OFFER OF A STAND
XVIII. BULLDOG THREATENS DICK
XIX. JIMMY TO THE RESCUE
XX. DICK IS ILL
XXI. JIMMY IN TROUBLE
XXII. MR. CROSSCRAB IS ROBBED
XXIII. BACK AT BUSINESS
XXIV. MR. CROSSCRAB'S VISIT
XXV. WHO DICK BOX WAS--CONCLUSION

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Cheese it! De cop!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"Where am I?" asked the strange boy

"We'll begin on the letters," said Dick

"Didn't youse run away from home?"

THE NEWSBOY PARTNERS

CHAPTER I

JIMMY IS IN LUCK

"Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Full account of de big f-i-r-e! Here ye are!
Wuxtry! _Woild, Joinal, Sun, Telegram_! Here ye are, mister! Git de
latest wuxtry! Wuxtry! Wuxtry!"

Jimmy Small was only one of a dozen newsboys crying the same thing in
City Hall Park, New York. The lads, ragged little chaps, were rushing
at all in whom they saw possible customers, thrusting the papers in
their very faces, a fierce rivalry taking place whenever two of the
boys reached the same man at the same time. But of all who cried none
shouted louder than this same Jimmy Small, and none was more active in
rushing here and there with papers.

"Wuxtry! Wuxtry!" yelled Jimmy, for that was how he and the other boys
pronounced the word "Extra."

"What's the extra about?" asked a well-dressed man, stopping Jimmy.

"Wuxtry! Big fire! Dozen people burned to death! Here ye are!
Wuxtry! Full account of de big f-i-r-e!"

Jimmy could not stop long to talk. He must sell papers. He snatched
one from the bundle under his arm, thrust it into the man's hand, took
the nickel the customer gave him, handed the man four pennies in
change, and all the while was yelling at the top of his voice his
war-cry:

"Wuxtry! Wuxtry!"

Jimmy had secured his bunch of papers from one of the delivery wagons
on Park Row--Newspaper Row, as it is sometimes called. He had dashed
across the park toward Broadway, selling as he ran. He wanted to reach
a certain corner at Broadway and Barclay Street, where he could be sure
of finding many customers who would buy papers on their way to take the
ferry over to New Jersey. Jimmy usually made that corner his
headquarters.

As he hurried on he was stopped several times by men who, attracted by
his loud shouts, wanted to buy papers to see what the extra was about.
As it happened, there had been a disastrous fire in New York that day
in which a number