THE MEAN SMALL BOY.
The mean small boy is different from the mean big boj, 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 aeeihim-hanging-about the postoffice 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, and the programme is carried out as in a case the other day. The victim was a short man, with a very red neck,: an 3 when ,he heard the quarterdrqp he clapped his hand on his pocket and looked around. “Did you drop a quarter]” asked the mean small boy, pointing to one on the stone'floor. “Ah 1 must be a hole in my pocket,” replied the fat man, as he pulled' up, the knees. of bis pants and bent over to pick it up. He had his' fingers':bn the money when it slid away, and as he straightened up he was greeted with fiendish chuckles from half a dozen big and mean small boys, . one of whom inquired— “ Which pocket Ins a hole in it ?* The man didn’t say. For some inexplicable reason he refused to enter into any explanations, but hastened away.—American paper.
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Kumara Times, Issue 411, 19 January 1878, Page 4
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