Show WINDFALLS FOR GAMINS two lavish gifts bestowed on a pair fair of bright boys quite recently the pretty wife of a prosperous manufacturer was looking into a confectioners confection ers window when a barefooted lad of about 10 coolly walked up to her and placed his rugged arm through hera Es coose 0 this liberty mum 11 ho be said with comical ceremony but I 1 aint got gob a mother omy 0 my own an I 1 feels lonely will ye kiss me for a moment the lady was too astonished toni shed to speak but the sight of the dirty face turned so audaciously up to hers drove away her indignation much to the amusement of the passersby she ehe kissed the lad soundly asked ask e d him where he be lived and dismissed him with a few coppers but that was no not the end of the little incident for some weeks after the boy was hunted up by the ladys husband and presented with payment for the kiss taken in front of the confectioners confection ers window the lady said A good natured gentleman who is very stout and on that account does doea not care to stoop once dropped his brier pipe in the middle middio of a busy street the pipe was a great favorite of his big but he dared not run the r risk of bending down and after gazing regretfully at his fallen treasure he be decided to abandon it before he could do so however a little street arab saw his plight and running forward picked up the pipe and res restored fored it to him bim the gentleman stayed stared at the boy without speaking for awhile and then pulled a handful of gold out of his pocket take this kiddie and be careful how you jou spend it he said mind also that whatever you do with it you are not to spend it on butter scotch for alt the stuff that made me fat fal ho he then walked away leaving the astonished urchin in possession of a windfall amounting to over P 30 london telegraph |