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Show JUST THE CHILDREN MOURNED None Came to Claim the Body of OIS George, the Cornetist. About us everywhere in the flotsam of the human tide are drifting mysteries myste-ries we accept without inquiry. There are such people in Sacramento as "Old George, the cornetist," who recently fell dead in New York city. Day after day he appeared at tha-same tha-same corner, offered his familiar tunes to the admiring children and tho soino-times soino-times abjuring adults, and collected the pennies wherewith to buy food, clothing and shelter. No one ever asked him his rightt name, but the children loved liiiu. Then one morning, as Old George raised his horn to his lips, it clattered clat-tered to the pavement, and the song; he was planning to give the crowd rattled in his throat as he toppled over dead. The children mourned him for several sev-eral days. No one came to claim hia body. |