“Some of the younger boys looked forward to the chance to sell papers in a good spot, but most were simply afraid to refuse the bigger boys. “I made a deal with a guy,” said Philip Marcus. “I said I’d buy him out. But when I looked at all the papers he had left, there was more than I thought I could sell. But there wasn’t two ways about it. I had to buy them and I did. I started to bawl. And while I was standing there bawling, I sold all them sheets.”
