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Show KITTEN BLOCKED SIDEWALK. Everybody Dodoed the Dirty Fttlns Until a Danker Appeared. At noon to-day, when Park Row, Manhattan, was crowded with hungry mortals, looking for tbelr favorite eating placo, a half starved black and whllo kitten mado Its appearance on tho sldowalk. It might havo wander-od wander-od out of somo cellar or somo tattered newsboy dropped It, hoping to soo somo fun. The ball of dirty fur landed land-ed directly In front of a clerk. He mado a frantic effort to avoid stepping on tho kitten and was successful. A young woman following stepped to ono side. Tho crowd followod bar lead. Then, at tho rato of a hundred or bo a minute, pcoplo were turning aaldo lest they Injure tho kitten. Any ono of tho number could easily have raised tho llttlo mass of bones on his or her too and tossed It Into tho gut tor. Tho kitten held full possession of tho sidewalk for fully flvo minutes. Then a banker, whose tlmo Is worth several dollars n minute, caught up tho llttlo feline, worthless from al most ororyhody'g point of vlow, and carried It a dlstanco of twenty feet and tenderly deposited It In an alley. And ct somebody tho otbor day accused Now Yorkers of lacking ten dornoss of heart Ilrooklyn Eagle. |