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Show The Thoughtless Panhandler. "There goes Frank Soso," remarked one actor to another as a tall man with a new fall coat strode pant, nod- I ding condescendingly as he went. "Fine looking rellow," answered the other legit. "Seems to be quite prosperous, pros-perous, too." "Is, now," assented the first one glumly, '"but a few years ago he was not only down on his luck, but continually contin-ually on the touch. He maced everybody every-body he encotintc -ed, and, I think, actually saved up enough money out j of touches for a new start. "Once In a while he got fearfully absent-minded. One afternoon he j came up to a little group of us and sprung the old song -flat broke, no-work no-work in sight, hadn't eaten for two-days. two-days. And as he talked he thoughtlessly thought-lessly pulled three silver dollars out of his pocket and began jingling them, tossing them up anil down and catching them as they fell, the clank-Ii.j clank-Ii.j of the silver making a really remarkable re-markable accompaniment to the woeful woe-ful story he was springing." |