| Vol. II.—No. 73. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, March 22, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
TOMMY TUCKER'S HORSESHOE.
BY MRS. FRANK McCARTHY.
Tommy Tucker lives on a "farm" in the city of New York, near the CentralPark. Some people make fun of Tommy's way of living, and call his placethe "sunken lots," and say his family are squatters; but it makes verylittle difference to Tommy what remarks were made about his home or hispeople, so long as they were happy. And they were happy for a very longtime, so happy that they didn't know what it was to be miserable, and itmakes a wonderful difference to be able to tell one from the other. Upto the beginning of this winter they had the longest run of luck onrecord in any family in that neighborhood. A long while since, a horsehad been turned out to die in a lot near the Tucker's. It wasn't such avery old horse, but it was dreadfully sick, and something was[Pg 322]...