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Show HAD OLD LADY'S GRATITUDE torles Boy Had Absorbed May Have Been Inventions, But 8he Was Satisfied. It waB on a Wado Park car on the Uno of 40 angles, nnd It happened but a dny or two ago. A boy of perhaps fourteen suddenly arose from his sent and gave It to a stout ludy. Tho stout lady looked up tt him. "You'ro a polite lad," sho Bald. "Fow toys nowadays would do the Hko." "I guess you didn't road yestorday'B paper," said the boj. -Thoro's a story about a boy who gavo up hie scat ln a street car to a lady, and when sho died Inst week she left him $7,000." "I didn't seo It," said tho lady. "Mnybo you saw tho ono about tho boy who carried tho old woman's basket bas-ket and sho gavo htm a brick houso and a moving plcturo theater?" "No," said tho lady; "I didn't sco that ono either." "Thoro waa another ono," tho lad wont on, "about tho boy who had n lowor berth in th' slecpln' car an' gavo it to n sick lady nn' sho loft him nil her fortune. I don't know how much it wne, but it must havo boon nn awful lot. You seo how It Is you can't afford af-ford to risk any chances." Tho lady solemnly nodded her head. "Blessings on tho man who Invents thoso stories," aho solemnly said. Cleveland Plain Dealer. |