-Please Don't Go So Fast-
Chapter Two
[Sellin' the First Pape]
I found out all sorts of stuff. He had a name, but Crutchy stuck with him. I don't even remember what it was. Anyways, he was an orphan, and when he was runnin' away from the orphanage to find a betta place for him and his little sista, he got pushed out into the busy streets of New York. His left leg got trampled on by a bunch of horses, yeah real big ones. So he went to the free doctor for the poor folks, and they gave him a crutch and a kick in the butt onto the street from which he came. Then he came to me, and I took him in.
He was complainin' that he didn't have any way to make money, and he didn't know how to tell his sista what happened. So I told him to sell some papes with me. Who woulda thought? A crip can sell a pape, and get some extra dough from the customers leavin' the barber shop. By the end of day one, we had just as much money as Jack Kelly did! Boy was I happy when I took him back to the guys!
So we's was goin' back to this place. And I introduced him to the Famous Jack Kelly. All the guys were questionin' about his crutch. He was sweet as pie, so they all loved him. He was initiated into the newsies!