Show INGENIOUS NO NAME NAM for tr 1 how jiow an lr ir fill llor ll pr lt II 11 truro a out of or is Isott lint jiu no IP a while there la is neither wealth nor fame la in ay my occupation said anid a couns oun man ato to lives by hia wite wits to 1 now novi york horld reporter I 1 dont knor ol 01 any calling demands so much ingenuity I 1 am tilt boastful when I 1 BJ sa I 1 aa am berlle in expedients and some of ay ray tricks havo haio seemed so clever to me that I 1 m ashamed to admit I 1 im m some hat stuck on V lt mp u tell ou how I 1 once eat got out of a pretty tight place I 1 inas ft as living in a boarding bo house in anast est twelfth street the landlady of nelch was a widow though th ough many ways nays I 1 ingra in myself self into her good graces and when things didn dian t run my way I 1 was able to hang her up at the time of 0 which I 1 m speaking I 1 d had a long run of hard luck which left me in her debt considerably ovir a hundred A friend of mine offered me half of his room until my luck ch aged and as the widow do had grown lisa li sa attentive lic to my wants la in direct proportion to the size of my bill I 1 determined to accept his offer somehow or other the widow wide surmised my little plan and accused me of intending to elope with my trunk at the first favorable opportunity 1 I assure you madam said 1 I thit you ire mistaken on the contrary I 1 have obtained for you another boarder a friend of mine who will share my room with me I 1 expect his trunk here any moment I 1 this smoothed matters over for the time and that name afternoon when the servants were nvere out and there waa was no one home but the widow and mi self and she was nas entertaining a friend in the second floor front I 1 sprung my little scheme hastily packing up tip my ray worldly possessions I 1 put my trunk on my back and proceeded as noiselessly as I 1 could down the tle stairs I 1 walked down backward not because thit was easier but because I 1 waa was ingenious na aa I 1 have told you it was good that I 1 did so for on the second landing I 1 anfor tuna tely made a noise that brought the laud landlady lady to the door I 1 immediately began to walk upstairs again and as I 1 turned the right way she novel never tumbled to the game oh your friend friends a trunk you ro re bringing in she said those ex pressmen are so disobliging I 1 m sorry ione of the ciric Is at homo home to help you I 1 waited until she went back to hot friend and nd then I 1 started down once more As I 1 safely passed the door I 1 heard the landlady say to her friend it was all right my dear I 1 thought he was trying to sneak out with his tits things but it was just as be he had said about ie Is friend friends a trunk he ile was carrying it upstairs |