The Boys are not all Dead.
I A couple of young hoodlums played a clever practical joke for nearly an hour on Washingto. -avenue, just above Seventh street. One of them had a • sack, apparently full, resting on the sidewalk, with his hands grasping and closing mouth. As a gentleman passed the boy would say, " Please give me a lift, Mister." "What have you got!" he was asked. "Coal. I'm bringing it home to my mother." When the gentleman stooped to rise the sack a full grown boy, concealed in it, sprung out with a yell that usually made the good Sam;i !- itan jump back a step or + wo. Even gentlemen who were escorting ladie3 to the theatre were taken in by the appealing cries of the boy, much to the delight of a '. number of companions who wereconcealed i in a doorway near the boy, and who '■ look turns at the bag.— St. Louis Postj Dispatch. _^ -—— __ M _ —- _
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 33, 21 August 1883, Page 3
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