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Show Modern "Weary WiIlie,, Quite Fussy Individuals One hot day a wandering "laborer" "labor-er" In a fuzzy cap and ragged clothes asked at the Andrews farm near Spender for food without mentioning men-tioning work. As It was just dinner din-ner time the Andrews Invited him In for the meal. He looked at bis chair at the table ta-ble for some time, and Mr. Andrews, thinking he was diffident, urged hlra to sit down and make himself at home. He took out a cloth and dusted the chair first 1 When night fell the stranger wanted to sleep in the house, but be had acted so peculiarly that Mrs. Andrews told him if he wished to spend the night there he must sleep In the wood bin. He took out all the wood, swept the place and put In a cot bed from the house. "I want two clean sheeis," he demanded de-manded belligerently, and then went on to call for a rug to step on In the morning, and a chair to place by his bedside, and a mirror. At dinner he had eaten eleven plates of a meat soup and five dishes of chocolate blanc mange. In the morning he wanted a button to match those on his coat and he obtained it. Then he offered to saw a little wood. "He sawed about ten little sticks In a lackadaisical njanner," related Mrs. Andrews, "and then said he would have to go. 'I think 50 cents would be about right for what you owe me," he asserted." New lork World. |