Show MADE HIS HOME A FORTRESS tenant had neat way of shutting out undesirable visitor visitors alterations to suit tenant was IL par part t of the sign in a philadelphia building telling that a loft over the store wag was to let one day lately a prospective tenant applied and ex pressed himself as pleased with the location and quarters as well as the terms As to alterations he bad had only one thing to suggest namely that th stair steps be fixed to the top floor with a pair of stout hinges and cords be attached so that they might be raised and lowered in a way best 11 lust rated perhaps by the attachments of a fire escape anxious to get a tenant and seeing no particular object tion to this arrangement the land lord complied his ills tenant a quiet man 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 were accommodated by the lowering of the steps the others were is ig nored the landlord tearful fearful lest some unlawful transactions might be coins going on in his building called upon the tenant tor for an explanation oh was wa the reply my friends have the whistle the other fellows follows are cred igors the hinges are still working |