MADE AN OPENING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2055, 30 July 1885, Page 2

MADE AN OPENING.

"Icamo here," he oxplained to th® Police Judge the other morning,' 'to hang out a sign of 'I am blind,' but I had scarcely got off fcho train when I found two other fellows working the rackot. Too much blindness arouses public suspicion." "Was that the only opening • " No, sir. I started out to fcia my heac| and arm up and work'the p,qo£ man who was hurt in a rai]pfti^facci^n' but the two beat corners in.tWtown occupied Qn? fellow had been crijshecl by a saw-log, and the other had been' terribly burned while rescuing a baby," "Pity the poor tire-sufferers!" sighed His Honor, "About the only thing left," continued the man, "was to be 'born dijaf and dumb,' but while I was getting a placard printed by a grocer's clerk, the owner of the store oame in and said he had just seen two such chaps walk to the station. Then it was either to go to work or come here and be sent up!" '•And you couldn't work ?" "Well, 1 was woaring a placard reading 'This man would work for 25c a day but for his poor health,' when the officer collared mo. Guess you'll have to make an opening for me somewhere," His Honor gave him a pl«®r4 reading : "This unfortunate person has' been elevated for twq months."—'Detroit 1 Free Press,' ' " '