Produced by Al Haines [Transcriber's note: the source book for this etext was missing the leaf containing pages 3 and 4. Should you have page scans for these pages, please contact Project Gutenberg's Errata reporting system at errata2010_AT_pglaf.org] [Illustration: Cover art] [Frontispiece: "Cheese it! De cop!" _Page_ 119] The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? BY FRANK V. WEBSTER AUTHOR OF "ONLY A FARM BOY," "BOB THE CASTAWAY," "THE BOY FROM THE RANCH," "THE YOUNG TREASURE HUNTER," ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY PUBLISHERS BOOKS FOR BOYS _By FRANK V. WEBSTER_ 12mo. Illustrated. Bound in cloth. ONLY A FARM BOY, Or Dan Hardy's Rise in Life TOM THE TELEPHONE BOY, Or The Mystery of a Message THE BOY FROM THE RANCH, Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences THE YOUNG TREASURE HUNTER, Or Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska BOB THE CASTAWAY, Or The Wreck of the Eagle THE YOUNG FIREMEN OF LAKEVILLE, Or Herbert Dare's Pluck THE NEWSBOY PARTNERS, Or Who Was Dick Box? THE BOY PILOT OF THE LAKES, Or Nat Morton's Perils TWO BOY GOLD MINERS, Or Lost in the Mountains JACK THE RUNAWAY, Or On the Road with a Circus _Cupples & Leon Co., Publishers, New York_ Copyright, 1909, by CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY THE NEWSBOY PARTNERS Printed in U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. JIMMY IS IN LUCK II. JIMMY IS OUT OF LUCK III. A BOX FOR A BED IV. THE NEW BOY V. DICK'S NEW NAME VI. JIMMY ACTS AS NURSE VII. JIMMY CONSIDERS MATTERS VIII. DIM RECOLLECTIONS IX. THE NEWSBOY PARTNERS X. AN ENCOUNTER WITH CONROY XI. PLANNING A TRICK XII. DICK BECOMES A TEACHER XIII. BULLDOG QUESTIONS DICK XIV. JIMMY'S FURTHER PROGRESS XV. PATCHING PENNIES 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.