Part 1 (2/2)

ARCHIE LONGS FOR A CHANGE IN SURROUNDINGS--A TRIP TO NEW YORK WITH UNCLE HENRY

THE Hut Club went out on a picnic the next Saturday, and had a jolly time They camped upon an island in the middle of a shallow strea brought most of the necessary apparatus from the Hut They fished a little, and hunted for turtles in the water, and altogether had a good ti did occur It was after nine o'clock at night when they reached town again, footsore and weary, and Archie Dunn had hardly entered the house before he was on the dining-rooe, half-asleep His mother see it would be before she came back Archie truly loved his ht that he would like to leave hoet so hisboy, now,” he often said to hian to look out for ht to be earning so ht to stop It's all right for boys, but I'hts were flying through his mind when his mother came in

”Oh, Archie,” she exclaimed, ”I've been so worried about you I've just been over to Mrs Sullivan's to see if Dannie had come home, and whether he had seen you Wherever have you been?”

”We didn't think it would take so long to walk ho up from the sofa, ”but ere awfully tired, and we didn't come very fast I'ry as a bear,to eat?”

”Yes, dear,” said Mrs Dunn, softly, ”and when you've finished your supper I have soive it to you now for fear you won't be able to eat, but as soon as you have finished your ed to eat his baked beans and brown bread and drink hisas in store for him, and he hurried as fast as he could, so that he could learn When he had finished he went into the sitting-roo with a letter spread open upon her lap ”Uncle Henry has written o with hied to go down there on business, and says he will be glad to take you along and show you so of the wonderful city, for he knows you won't be any trouble to him Now I hardly knohat to say, Archie If I can feel that you are behaving yourself properly, and are doing your best to be as little trouble as possible, I ao”

”Oh, o this once, and I'll promise to stay at hoht, then,” said Mrs Dunn ”You shall go on the first train Monday , and Uncle Henry will join you at Heddens Corner Run along to bed now”

Archie went up-stairs alht Was it really true that he was to see the great city at last? He had heard so what their fathers saw there, but he had never even hoped that he would see it for himself so soon Of course he had determined to see it all some day, but that was to be far in the future The lad could hardly sleep for the joy of it all, and when he did finally lose consciousness, it was only to drea to the skies

Sunday passed slowly by At Sunday school, Archie told the boys that he was going to New York on the morrow, and from that moment he was the hero of the class The boys looked at hi admiration, and seeo so far from home The city was in reality little more than a hundred miles, but to their boyish reat

Early on Mondayfor the train

His mother was there to see hiht of parting with her only child, if only for a day or two

And Archie was radiant with delight at the glorious prospect ahead of him He walked nervously up and down the platform, and wished frequently that it were not so early in the ht be there to see hi loco train of coaches, and Archie was soon aboard, hurrying off to Heddens Corner and the city In a feweneral store at the Corner, and was an ihbourhood He was of some importance in the city, too, for his name was known in politics, and his custooing to see the city under good auspices, if his uncle would only have time to take hi which Archie kept his face glued to the -pane, watching the flying landscape, the great train pulled through a long, dark tunnel, and finally entered an ilass where it came to a final stop Crowds left the coaches, and passed out of the station, where they were sed up in the great rush of traffic Soes Some entered the street-cars, and some went up a stairway and entered what seemed to Archie a railway train in the air

Uncle Henry told Archie to follow hi away frohbourhood of the ters, until they finally left the trolley-car, and passed through a cross street into a long, quiet thoroughfare which looked old enough to have been there for a hundred years The houses were built far back from the street, with pillars in front, and into one of these quaint old dwellings went Archie and his uncle

”I always stop don,” explained Uncle Henry, ”because I areat wholesale establishments It is central to the retail stores, too, and to many of the places of interest”

When they were settled in their room, Uncle Henry explained that he would have to be away most of this first day, but that to-hts So Archie expected to remain indoors all day; but when his uncle had left the house he decided that he couldn't possibly res were taking place outside So he decided to walk up and down the street, anyhow, and when he went out he felt like a prisoner just escaped froreat reatest crowd seemed to be on that cross street about two blocks away, so Archie decided to go there, and see if there was anything new on that street

He sawwithout any apparent motive power, there were thousands and thousands of people in the streets, and the stores looked so handso into one or two of them, just to see what they were like And when he had finished with one or two he could think of no reason why he shouldn't go on up the street, where he was sure he would find a great s to see So on and on he went, until at last he was tired and hungry, and then, for the first tiht of all he had read about people losing their way in the city, and not being able to find their relatives again But he was a brave boy, so he deter to a policeman And after a time he was successful, and entered the queer old house in the ancient street at just three o'clock in the afternoon His uncle was there waiting for him, and was nearly beside hieneral alarm for you, at the police station,” he said ”How did you happen to go away?”

”Oh, I was so very tired of staying in the house,” said Archie, ”and I felt sure that I could findlost at all

And to-ht, Uncle Henry, so you needn't bother with me at all, unless you want to”

And it so happened that Mr Kirk was very busy the next day, and would have found it quite impossible to show Archie about So it was fortunate that he was able to go everywhere alone, or he would have had to return ho at all of the city

As it was, he went here, there, and everywhere, and saw a great deal of the city, the people, and the way in which they lived The entire place had a strange fascination for hilad he would be to live where he could see all this rush of business, this varied life, every day And he fully deter to do, so that he ht work himself up, and come to own one of the handsoes on the boulevard And he observed every boy who passed hi to find out whether positions were easy to secure, and whether they paid much when they were secured

So when they took the four o'clock train for home, and arrived at Archie's house in time for supper, he told more about the city boys and their work than about the tall buildings, the Brooklyn Bridge, or the Central Park He talked so hts of the city boy, and the one to bed Mrs Dunn took her brother aside and talked with hi Archie's future

And between theo to the city to work