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Show , HIS PRESENTS RETURNED. Tho Ballot Girl Wont Hark on Him In a Cra I Monntr. liuiTalo Express. He was an actor out. of a job and looked so woe-begone that I stopped to speak to him. "Hard luck?" I . -liked. "Well, I should mv so.' "Xo engagement?" "No; but that doesn't both : tie. I cm got one easily enough when 1 want one." "What's tho f rouble, then?" "My girl's gt-np back on me." "I shouldn't think that would trouble a man like you." "Oh, I don't cure for (he g'rl 'much, but he used mo mean." "Yes?" "She was in tho ballci. you know." "I tli ln't know, but whnt of it?" "M'l,,- ulwi'a Vntlivnn, I nil ll. , ...,.! , , i-iiij .-i ii.LiiiiiL-i lilt I pi ir.iril t I've given hoc in the past six nnnth",." "That's gootl. You can tiae them again." "Hut I can't. That's whut makes me mad. To think I should have wasted so much good money on presents that would never be of any more use!" "Why, what were llit.-y?" "You won't give it" away if I toll you ?" "Xo, never." "Fourteen pairs of t;ghts." |