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The Money Isn't There

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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"I just swiped a leather, Jim," said a pickpocket to another of bis profession as he carne across bim sitting on a benoh in Union sqiaare. "Wus itoneo' thein purty ones what the womon carries round de street in der hands?" "Yes, I swiped it up on Fift' avener when she wus lookin Ínter er windy. " "If yer'd been in de bizuiz as long as I hev, yer wonldn't cr took it. " "Why?" " 'Tain't wuth it. " "A feller might strike er big baal, though, that way some time.'1 "Not on yer lil'e he wouldn't. I've swiped a load on 'em, an I never got one yit that I could git a beer out on. Dey don't carry money in dein leathers. Dey's only er bluiï. Try dat one yer've got and see if it's enny good. " Glancing abont him warily to make sure that no one was watching him, tha pickpooket opened the purse. He found three samples of silkoline, a patent glove buttoner, a card advertising a lotion for removing blackheads from the face, a sheet of fiesh colored court piaster, some samples of scvirn and Madras, a list of prices of carpets, a circular showing an illustration of a patent hose supporter, a card of small safety pins, two slabs of chewing gum warranted to cure dyspepsia and a card bearing her address and instructions to take her there if shemet with an accident. "That's all dcre is in it, " said the man who had "swiped" the pocketbook as he turned it upside down and shook it, with a look of disgust ou his face. "Didu't I teil yer, " reinarked the other. "I've 'swiped' dein t'ings till I'm tired. Dey're all da same. De women don't carry nothin but trash in 'em. De monev ain't dere. never!" -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News