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Show GAVE TRAMP THE DELICACY. Wayfarer Had Asked for Starter for breakfast, and What Uculli housewife Do? It was Sunday morning and the Wayfarer was uutgry. we walked slowly down the street, scrutinizing such nouses as migat give promise 01. a breakfast, or, at least, a starter on one. ij'inany he selected one that showed signs 01' life on the interior. He sauntered slowly toward the back door and knocked. A woman answered the rap. "Good morning, lady," he said, with a smile, at the same time hoisting his travel-worn hat, "I just dropped into see if you would give a fellow a little starter on a breakfast. Not a whole breakfast, I pray of you. Only a start-e,r start-e,r and then I will go on to another neighbor, thus not exacting too great sacrifice from your Sabbath menu." The woman of the house stood stupefied. She had never heard such a speech from a tramp before. "Well well, well, what could I give you?" she finally sputtered. He spied two halves of a grapefruit on the table. They had been sweetened sweet-ened the night before and the sugar gave them a highly luscious tone. Little Lit-tle patches of unabsorbed sugar still rested on the crests. The wayfarer locked at them longingly. "I only ask for a starter on a breakfast, break-fast, madam," he said, quietiy. "Clmy a starter. I will go on for the rest." "But I hardly know what " "Yes, it is hard to solve," he interrupted. inter-rupted. "But, don't you know, 1 am abnormally foolish about grapefruit." And what else was there for her to do but to give that which stood as a visible supply. |