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Show The stroller in the Seattle Argus, tells a new one on the rental department of a real estate concern there. One day one of the men started out to collect the rent at a certain two-story dwelling. dwell-ing. It had been some time since anything had been forthcoming and the astute real estate man thought that he might be able to come to an understanding un-derstanding and save a tenant and there were a good many vacancies in those days. He was met at the door by a coarse looking woman, and upon explaining his business was tendered a five dollar gold piece. "But, madam," he explained, "your rent is fifteen dollars per month, and you are already in arrears three months." ' You'd better take what you can get these times, young man, and make the best of it" replied re-plied the tenant. "If my old man hadn't sold the plumbing out'er the bath room you wouldn't have got that." That is a good hunch for a lot of -people with the cold winter coming on. |