| OCR Text |
Show THi RETORT DiaCOURTEOtJlJ A Bright Utile Hewebey Aaewera a Laf ta a gaaarti aad Caaalla Meaner. A smr . utrty newsboy worked! payln,: ran lor week or so down I tha (u p; ir districts, says Cblcaa Tribune. Ho would don a most p thetlc expression, go up to a woman as ay, "Missis, won't you buy a papef DIs la my blrfday and I ain't sol hardly any.'' Of court ha would sol ona In nln cases out of ten snd woul generally get a nickel and ba told i keep tha change. He must hava kep thla up fully a week and reaped I bountiful harvest. At last ona youni woman who had tired of tha aame atori and who became rather skeptical on the subject ot the "blrfdays." stopped tha yoanf genius and remarked ln tones clear enough to be beard aome little Tllslanoe, "See here, little boy, what did you say about your birthday?" "Lady, please buy a paper; dla It my blrfday, and I ain't Bold but ona paper to-day," whined tha young rascal. "Now, little boy, to my certain knowledge you have had a birthday every day thla week. Aren't 701 ashamed to tell such stories?" He wag cornered for a minute ana stood with head cast down and evsrr appearance of remorse. At Inst hs looked up with a moat Innocent expression expres-sion and said: "Well, you ace, lad;, you en me we're different. I ain't very old, en I thought I'd have a lot of blrfdays) blrf-days) to oncct, en den I could quit havln' 'em, like you. Boo?" Blie concluded he was past reforming and, slipping a dime In hla hand, moved on sighing over the wickedness of tin generation, while the young alnner executed exe-cuted a pas aeul of his own Invention. |
