The fee was only a penny, but Hans did not have the penny. He was at a
loss.
"Huh! it's dead easy," spoke up Fritz. "Give me your overcoat. I'll
take it to the man at the checking place and say I found it. He'll
put it away. When you are ready to go home you go to him and ask if
anybody has turned a lost overcoat in to him. Then, of course, you'll
get yours."
STREET-CARS
A very pretty but extremely slender girl entered a street car and
managed to seat herself in a narrow space between two men. Presently a
portly colored mammy entered the car, and the pretty miss, thinking to
humiliate the men for lack of gallantry, arose.
"Aunty," she said, with a wave of her hand toward the place she had
just vacated, "take my seat."
"Thank you, missy," replied the colored woman, smiling broadly, "but
which gen'man's lap was you sittin' on?"
"Madam," said the man in the street-car, "I know I ought to get up and
give you my seat, but unfortunately I've recently joined the Sit Still
Club."
"That's all right, sir," replied the woman. "And you must excuse
me for staring at you so hard: I am a member of the Stand and Stare
Club."
She proved herself so active and conscientious a member that the man
began to feel uncomfortable under her gaze.
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