The Newsy and the Tramp

Ragsy was a plain newsboy. He wasn't even a newsboy with a house: he had been "sellin' papes" from the day his drunkard father kicked him into the street and his abiding place was wherever unkind Providence permitted him to hang his cap. Often it was in the park, where a bench made a bed of a sort, and where he always had lots of company. Tramps were thick in that park that year. Ragsy came to know the tramps. One of them was named Connors. Ragsy asked if he couldn't go out on the road with him. Connors laughed, but the newsy persisted. In the end, Connors yielded. Their wanderings are without adventure until they fall in with some tramps who feel that the newsy is just small enough to squeeze into a neighboring hen roost and pass out some fowl. Ragsy will not become a thief! The tramp takes his little chum away from the men who would make him a criminal, and resolves to resume his blacksmithing and keep Ragsy nearby where he can keep watch over him. He finds work in a smithy and puts the boy to school. Here is where his attentions to Ragsy began to earn dividends for Connors. The head of the little country school is the prettiest schoolma'm in all the country, and when the blacksmith enters the building with Ragsy he meets-Her! Finally, he weds her. Ragsy, let it be said, spurred him on. Newsy knew a good thing when he saw it and he took care that Connors got the girl. So from being his teacher, the girl becomes Ragsy's mother. - IMDb