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Show HAllf BLACKMAIL a Italian Organ Grinders Systematically Annoy the Sick. Whether things went smoothly or whelnw they did not, tho clerk In that particular drug store usually oozed good-nature; but for some reason ho went all to pieces wheA tho little Italian, Ital-ian, who had been trAUlttg the few pedestrians to a wheezy wall, came In and asked an apparently civil ques- """Vou tella me" he said, with a smile and an obsequious bow, "any Hlok folks con thlsa block?" The clerk set down a half-lllled bottle bot-tle and stepped out from behind the counter with n threatening gesture, No" ha thundered, "there Is none, and If there were I wouldn't tell you about them, (let out of here." Tho Italian backed awkwnrdjly toward to-ward tho door. A oiiBtomer who for many months had basked dally In tbo gwnlal drug clerk'B smile, regarded thla' display of temper with alarm, What la the cause of this sudden outburst?" sho asked. "Weren't you too hard on the poor follow? He didn't mean any harm." "Didn't her' snapped tho clerk. "He meant all sorts of harm. His kind alwas do mean harm when they come around pestering drug clerks fur pointers on the idek .folks In the block. Thnt Is n pet trick of theirs. There wns a tlmo when I natunlly thought they wanted to find out where the slok people lived so thoy could steer their organs in the oppoBlto direction, di-rection, and not annoy the patients. Ilut 1 learned that Instead of oonsld-erateb oonsld-erateb stMliognway from the hornet) ol ' allllctlon, they hustled right down In front of the window, where a man la) 111 or dying and ground out tunes til silence was puruhasod at a libera' llgure." New York Times. |