THE MEAN SMALL BOY.
The mean small boy is different from the mean big boy, because all of his tricks are calculated to make other hearts ache. He now takes a silver quarter and makes it fast to a string, and to see him hanging about the post-office one would set him down as a boy who never had an evil thought. He selects a victim and drops the quarter where it will do the most good. The ring of the metal commands attention at once. The victim was a short man with a very red neck, and when he heard the quarter drop he clapped his hand on his pocket and looked around.
‘ Hid you drop a quarter ?’ mildly asked the mean small boy, pointing to one on the stone floor.
‘Ah! must be a hole in my pocket,’ replied the fat man as he pulled up the knees of his pants and bent over to pick it up. He had his lingers on the money when it slid away, and as he straightened up he was greeted with fiendish chuckles from half a dozen mean big and mean small boys, one of whom inquired—- * Which pocket has a hole in it ’’
The man didn’t say. From some inexplicable reasons he refused to enter into any explanations, but hastened away.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1086, 21 December 1877, Page 3
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221THE MEAN SMALL BOY. Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1086, 21 December 1877, Page 3
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