OCR Text |
Show Collecting His Bill. Ono day last summer visitors to n merry-go-round on n vacant lot In tho outskirts of Philadelphia woro very much touched by tho melancholy do-mcunor do-mcunor of a long, lean, lank Individual Individ-ual who, Buffering grently, persisted In riding repeatedly. At last somo ono Bald to him sympathetically: "You appear to bo In great distress." dis-tress." "Yes," replied tho man on tho merry-go-round, "this continual riding round nnd round makes mo seuBlck." "Well, then, why don't you quit riding?" nsked the Inquisitive questioner. ques-tioner. "I can't help It," replied tho poor man. "The mnn who runs this nior-ry-go round owes mo money, nnd tho only way I enn collect It Is by tnklng It out In itiles." |