Show The Mill Is Framed The champion mean man will never down The belt passes from hand to hand with a jumping alacrity This time i must fall into the possession o a man who is a character in his way I wayHe He is an old old fellow and lives in a Chicago suburb wIt his brothers They own an immense estate but are parsimonious to a degree to two or three degrees in fact Of late he has been getting Into hot water on account of i young wife wh m he rashly wedded awhile Wicked ago people make remarks about providential re tribution a they hear of the matrimonial matri-monial toils with which he is now enveloped en-veloped But that is not the story < Long ago he was ill very ill Neigh u 1 1C bars pitied the lonely man and offered themselves a purses tried to help things along and cheer the patient He couldnt eat anything and groaned lamentably in consequence The neighbor wrinkled his forehead and by dint of questioning elicited the fact that the sick man thought he would relish some broiled chicken On kind thoughts intent the neighbor seized an ax which he wielded with good effect ef-fect in the invalids chicken yard and soon a savory dish cheered the heart of the patient and he devoured with a relish the barnyard fowl Weeks passed He got well and the kind neighbor had not seen him for some time when one day the neighbor received a note from his erratic acquaintance ac-quaintance Was it a message o thanks or an expression of good will Nay not so I was a bill for the chicken the neighbor had killed during its owners sickness He framed the bill and hung it up Chicago News |