Show I 1 MADE HIS HOME A FORTRESS tenant had neat way of shutting out undesirable alterations to suit stilt tenant was a pai pait t of the sign in a philadelphia buil building dinv telling that a loft over the store was vms to let one day lately a prospective tenant applied at ai I 1 expressed himself as aa pleased with the location and quarters as well as aa the terms As to alterations lie he had bad only one thing to suggest namely that the aale r steps be fixed to the top floor with a pair of stout hinges binges and cords corda be ba attached so BO that they might be raised and lowered la in a way ay best illustrated lust rated perhaps by the attachments of a fire escape anxious to get a tenant and seeing no particular objection to this arrangement airan gement the landlord complied his tenant a quiet man inan was wont to go to his quarters early in the forenoon and at once draw the steps up to the ceiling A few only of his many visitors those in fact who gave a peculiar whistle ei accommodated by the lowering of the steps the others were ignored the landlord fearful lest some unlawful transactions might be 19 going on in his building called upon the tenant for an explanation oh was waa the reply my friends evve the whistle the other fellows are creditors the hinges are still working |