The Discarded Newspaper

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 86, 31 December 1885, Page 3

The Discarded Newspaper

I Sometimes a man throws his morning paper down on the. seat, and ' leaves the tramcar. Each man that . has no paper wants it, and each man I would grab it, if alone and unobserved. i The man who appears to be looking out of a window in the opposite direction is the man who sees that paper more distinctly than anyone else. And he being the man who seems least interested in it, is really the man who wants it most. As soon as that paper is thrown down it becomes an object of interest. The man who never buys or reads a paper wants it, and wants it badly. The man sitting next to it looks straight ahead, and does'nt seem to know am thing about it. But he is just quivering with excitement. He is wrought up to the highest pitch and is prepared to grab for that paper just as soon as the man on the other side of it makes a similar attempt. Just at this period a man sitting opposite the paper gives it a sharp excited look, as though he had seen his name printed wrong. Then he gives another sharper look, and his eyes snap with excitement, and he leans over and picks the paper up to see if he is right. You can tell by the way he handles it that he never paid for it ; and he gradually gets it up in front of his face, and turns it at intervals, and is as much at home with it as though it were his own. And the other men look at him sourly, and silently condemn him as being largely greedy in his nature. — The Sunday

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