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Show ! JUST FOLKS i By EDGAR A GUEST. - HIS PI, A N . He scenieel to be a trifle queer. ; The nelg'ihors living round him here I observed he had a curious way Of hiring men fiom day to day To wash his windows and to sweep The Bidekalk and tho ground to keep: When one man had the back yard cleared j Another man next morn appeared And diligently there and then Tinkered around the yard again. The windows, washed the day before, j The new man shined a little more, I And with the morning there would come ( Another nuin to polish some; I Each day beheld a strange, wan face i Iolng edd chores around the place, : Until the neighbors, a they do, I Fell Into gossip, wondering who This regiment i.f men might be And why this tinkering endlessly. But yesterday upon the street This curious man i chanced to meet, i And asked, point-blank, the reason for Such diligence around his door, j "Do you believe, ' I dared lo say, "Windows need washing every day"' Though tidy should r home be kept, Mill walks should not be hourly j;vvopt; What Is Die- purpose of your plan. And why each day a different man?" He looked at me and smiled and said. ' 1 he men must earn ihclr daily bread, Tin y come for Jobs by which to live And I've no Job that I can give, But windows can be washed, you sec. By different men repeatedly. And bo I fornieel this little' plan ESoi h day to help some needy man." Anil I hen t n me he v. h i p.-fi "I hope those fellows never know.' oo |