Chapter 3
The next morning Spot was awakened to a small hand shaking him. Groggily he opened his eyes.
"Spot, am I gonna be a newsie today?" Vivien asked him.
"Yeah…" Spot replied yawning. He looked at his watch in disbelief. It was only 5:30 in the morning. "Go back to sleep." He said turning over.
"But I'm not tired." Vivien said bluntly.
"Den go play wit your teddy bear…" Spot suggested.
"Ok…" Vivien said and he hurt her walk over to get her bear. Spot was just about to fall back asleep when Vivien started humming. Annoyed, Spot pulled his pillow over his head. A few minutes later Vivien started to talk with her teddy bear. Spot, not able to take it anymore, sat up.
"Vivien do ya want breakfast?" Spot asked her as he got out of bed.
"YES!" she shouted in a high pitched voice.
"Keep it down in dere!" Someone from the next room shouted.
"Ok go get dressed." Spot told her.
"What should I wear?" Vivien asked.
"I dunno, clothes would be nice." Spot mused.
"Mommy always picked out my outfits." She told him. Spot walked over to her suitcase and pulled out a dress randomly.
"'ere." He said handing it to her. "Now go get dressed." With that Vivien scurried out of the room. Spot hazily found his own clothes and put them on. A minute later Vivien returned.
"Spot can you button up my dress?" She asked sweetly. So Spot buttoned up her dress.
"Are ya ready ta go?" He asked her.
"No, I still have to put my shoes on." Vivien declaired, putting on her boots. "Spot can you lace up my boots?"
"Yeah yeah." Spot bent down to lace her boots and he realized that there were about 20 little loops he had to go around on each boot. Spot sighed and began lacing up the boots. Finally they were ready to go.
"Where are we going?" Vivien asked as they walked.
"Manhattan. We're gonna start ya over dere cuz it's easier." Spot told her as they approached the bridge. Vivien grabbed his hand.
"I'm not suppose ta go to Manhattan." She told him.
"Well now you'se wit me and I says it's ok." He told her pulling her along. A few minutes later they arrived in Manhattan just as the nuns were passing out breakfast.
"Heya Spot, whatcha doin' all da way oveh 'ere?" Jack Kelly asked.
"Heya Jackie-boy. Dis 'ere is Vivien. She's gonna learn ta sell papes taday." Spot told him.
"You can sell wit us if ya want!" Les suggested.
"Les, I tink 'e can show 'er da ropes." Racetrack told Les.
"Yeah, but t'anks anyways kid." Spot said as they walked over to the DO.
The rest of the morning Spot tried to show Vivien how to sell papes.