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IRISH NED

THE WINNIPEG NEWSY



By

THE REV. SAMUEL FEA, M.A., Ph.D.
Rector of St. Peter's, Winnipeg



TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1910

Copyright, Canada, 1910, by SAMUEL FEA.



      TO

   My Mother

   TO WHOSE
LOVE I OWE SO
    MUCH




IRISH NED

THE WINNIPEG NEWSY.




CHAPTER I.


"Free Press! T'bune! Telegram! Papers, sir? Three for a nickel! Press,
T'bune and Telegr-r-r-ra-m-m-m-m!"

It was a hot afternoon in August, at the corner of Portage Avenue and
Main Street, the busiest thoroughfare in the busy city of Winnipeg, now
at its busiest and noisiest; but above the noise and din of traffic
rose shrill and clear the persistent cry of "Press, T'bune and
Telegram!"

The speaker, or rather the shrieker, was a boy not more than nine 