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Show GETTING HI3 HAND IN. Why Man Was Practicing Diving Through New ork Crowd. At the Brooklyn bridge approach tno of her day a man was observed malum; frantic rushes Into tho thick of tho crowd. As everybody who goes to Itiooklyn during rush hours does .' It l necessary to explain why tint particular mnn wns obsorved, At first no one paid any attention to him excepting ono old follow with jipart disease whom ho Jostled, nnd two young women with bundles who wero knocked off their feet by tho raxhnens of his charge Everybody oKo was too Intent on sprinting past 'in nrlRhbor or ndroltly disabling a fHal to bother about such a common-placo common-placo occiu ronce. It was the repetition of hln rushes over tho snme ground nnd not tho ferocity of his behavior or his dlsro-K"td dlsro-K"td for the softer sex that finally n .do him the subject of romark. Whon fur tho third tlmo ho rotrontod owr ground thus gained, and as often returned lo tho attack, n small, dyspeptic dys-peptic looking bridge Jumpor whoso corns had beon rudoly trodden upon vonturrd a remonstrance Subtly inserting in-serting his elbow In tho abdomen of tho center rush, after tho most approved ap-proved bridge Jumping tnctlcs, ho courteously Inquired, "What seomsto bo eatln' you?" A look of pained surprlso overspread over-spread the foaturos of tho rushor. "You needn't ho so unreasonnblo," ho answered with offended dignity. "If ou must know, I promised to do my sick wife's Christmas shopping in Now York on Saturday afternoon, and being a hit out of condition, I was Just getting In form. But I didn't mean to inako myself conspicuous, I assure you." And somehow tho apology really did mako him conspicuous for tho moment mo-ment Now York Herald. |