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Show THE RETORT DISCOURTEOUS. i 4 J a i. isL . . . A llrlc'it I-ltllo Nemboy Ainwure iTLaaj, In n Rnmrt nnd Cauitlo Manner. A small and dirty newsboy worked a paying game for a week or so down In tho shopping districts, says Chicago Tribune Ho would don a most pathetic pa-thetic expression, go up to a woman and say, "Missis, won't you buy a paper? Dls is my blrfday and I ain't sold hardly any." Of course he would soil ono In nlno cases out of ton and would generally get n nickel and bo told to keep tho change Ho miiBt have kept this up fully a wcok and reaped a bountiful harvest. At last ono young woman who had tired of tho samo story and who becamo rathor skeptical on tho subject of the "blrfdnys," stopped the young gonlus and remarked In tones clear onough to be heard some little Tlistance, "Seo hero, littlo boy, what did you say about your birthday?" "Lady, plcaso buy a paper; dlB la my blrfday, and I ain't sold but ono paper to-day," whined tho young rascal. "Now, littlo boy, to my certain knowledge you havo had n .birthday ovory day this weok. Aren't you ashamed to tell such stories?" He was cornered for a mlnuto and stood with head cast down and overy appearance of remorse. At last ho looked up with a most Innocent expression expres-sion nnd said: "Well, you seo, lady, you en mo wo'ro different. I ain't very old, en I thought I'd havo n lot of blrf-days blrf-days ' to oncct, en den I could quit hnvln' 'cm, llko you. S"co?" She concluded ho wns past reforming and, slipping a dlmo in his hand, moved on sighing over tho wickedness of tho generation, while tho young sinner executed exe-cuted a pas scul of his own invention. |