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Show WAS INSURED AGAINST A FALL. Eow a Horriflod Crowd Waitod for an Accidont. In East Thirteenth street a crowd' -was staring up at) a second-story window. Tho lower sash was raised and tho head and shoulders of a child about 2 yeara old could bo seon. In two minutes the child had got its breast on the sill and was reaching out to get hold o a string hanging hang-ing rom somewhero about a reminder of somo disaster to a kite. "Heavens! He'll fall!" gasped one. "Stop! Stop! Go back!" shouted another. Everybody had something to say, and t. hllo thoy were saying it the child wriggled wrig-gled further and further over the sill. At length a woman with a basket on her arms cried. "What foola you men are! Why don't you ring the bell and tell its mothcr7" Threo or four started, but they had not reached the door wircn the" child loat lt3 balance and fell. Thero was a cry of horror, hor-ror, but the fall of tho child was checked two feet from tho sill, and there he hung, sprawling, with a leathor strap buckled around his waist. His howls brought a woman to tho windovr, and she pulled him up, deposited him Inside, and then sold to the gaping crowd: "Thonght I didn't know my business, eh? Well, I just do. and you can move on." Now York Frcs3 |