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Show ALIVE WITH VERMIS. The I'liflfcioiitKa Ainioul of a liny 'I'mmji Tor CI cut 1 ClolliL-s. . Th u r sd ay m ( r 11 i n g, while the rain was falling in sheets, a boy tramp knocked at the door of a t certain house in Brigham Cly. The good wife responded to the rapping. rap-ping. Opening the door, she was met by a wet.ragged, shivering piece of humanity. The lad was not more than seventeen years old. He asked for some clothes. The lady refused, but not heeding her refusal he burst out in a passion born of desperation des-peration : ''For God's sake, lady, give me something to wear! My old clothes arc filth' and alive with vermin! I can't get work; nobody wauls a lousy boy ! Can't you give me some old clothes? I don't care how ragged they are, just so1 they are clean!" It is needless to say that the boy's passionate appeal ap-peal touched the heart of the lad' and he got a clean change of old u nderwear. |