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ploded but the charge in th e barrel failed to go off.
T h is appeared to puzzle him considerably for a w hile.
T hen he tu rn ed the gun around, glanced into th e b ar
rel and saw that th e charge was ju st sta rtin g . Q uick
as th o u g h t— in fact very m uch q u ick er— he clapped
the g u n to his shoulder and aim ed it so th at when the
charge exploded an in stan t later it b ro u g h t down the
sq u irre l.”
P R O F E S S IO N A L B EG G A R S
I t is pretty well know n th at a g reat m any apparent
cases of distress are fictitious, and at least four-fifths
of the street beggars are im posters, but it is to be
hoped th a t very few benevolent people are so highly
deceived as the lady who recently investigated the
w ants of some pensioners on her bounty, says th e St.
Louis G lobe-D em ocrat.
“ W here is th e blind m an?” she asked a little girl
she m et at the door of a tenem ent house.
“ H e ’s read in ' th e paper, m u m ,” was th e answ er.
“ Ah! w here is deaf m an?”
<<He’s ta lk in ’ politics w ith the dum b m a n .”
“ And w hat has become of the paralytic?”
“ H e ’s abed, m u m .”
“ T h a t’s strange! H e ought to be ru n n in g a ra c e ,”
said the lady sarcastically.
“ He is the only honest beggar in th e house. W hy
is he in bed?”
“ Because h e ’s d e a d .”
W IIO ’8 Y E R B E A U T Y ?
A young countrym an came to tow n w ith his best
girl. Passing a flower store, th ey stopped to adm ire
th e display of flowers.
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