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NEW YORK XBWSBOYS.[From Harpers Vaung People J Newsboys who are too young. too discreet. or loo Impftctmiius to gamblenmuse themselves with games of agilityI which the Italian boy« have introduv I during the oast few ■ -arlt;. One tif Lh»oo» r* rambles rnc American sebWhoy j-m.--of aii'wipfoiih hm has he.?n ■ 11it==t is- i, in she park ‘swipe rh bmW and mother, whii li :-•.■ ms l I.!*? lh* ItilPu. i.i* of iinr•'Hiree old eat,” In ■ ?lb I cha.se de rub I believe rub I* an abrevhinon nr rubber hill. Rut I urn not sure, for It la never t-asv, and it \? -nm‘times impoasi-'ble. to secure -n English translation of newsboy language.I vv;i much Interested in knowing wfev the hoye sotmtlm-- er 'Rextry, *rnd*imetlni*s N.'Stry, when cftUJng nnxlm edition After much In vent Ig.- it IonI learned that when a boy says P.extry he thinks h' t« saving. H* re ir yourextra. and Xejetry 1 is a condensed form r f asking. *Do you wan 1 an oxtri? Any irti-uer can by rabidly r.-p I* *«? Here Is jutir extra. easily arrive at Rfxtry; luti with »nlv the result work hack-ward from* I found the proems of reconstruction difficult The newsboys of the lover end of townspeak oli t1 Lent s n5 dt.uu u-th r theyare Irish. Italian, or Jewish. The younger boys know only ;i ;w hun ir d wordsof this dialect, which wns.v-r, 11 their I tsrtH-s-- of fri mdly .*nd trade inf rcour -Imi the- children of foreign parents fallInto the vernacular when \ iiiarrH! other ox citing cause demands greater fluency.
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Salt Lake City Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1894
Page 1
Full Page
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Harvard U.
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