| Show L l 1 TOOK THEM FOR DUMMIES DUNt Quite Embarrassing Emb Mistake Made in iti inthe the D Darkness by Sighted Short-Sighted Poet It was Saturday night and the stores were kept open until a late tate ho hour r. r Fred Fred p had lad Emerson Brooks the reader poet-reader just finished his entertainment and was walking over to the hotel accompanied accompanied panted by a resident of the town whose s store ore the they presently pass passed 9 oa their way t Wait Walt until we can close up th the store and and Ill I'll walk over to the hotel t with you you said the man Brooks Ill J All right replied help I J you 1 With With that he grabbed up what In Inthe In Inthe f the semi-darkness semi seemed to be a a. a- a couple of dummy dress forms and started into the store with them one under reach Peach each arm His triumphal progress was short however as two two- piercing screams screams arose and his bur bur- burt t I struggled so vigorously that he dropped them as lS quickly as he had picked them them up lp They were the two young women clerks who in the absence absence ab- ab ab ab- I sence of customers had come out to watch th the passers-by passers and found themselves themselves them them- r selves thus unceremoniously escorted t back to their duty duty Lippincotts Maga Maga- zine |
