An Easy Bet To Win

They stepped to the edge of the fiidewalk and looked long and earnestly in the direction of the cornice of one of the big buildings. Of conrse under the circumstances the man who had been standing in the doorway feit impelled to join them. He could not see anything extraordinary at the top of the building, but he kept his eyes upturued because they did. A man who was hurrying along saw the three, and he at once forgot where he was going and what he had to do, and joined them. . "I told you so," said the man who had first cast his eyes in that direction, and he made a ruotion as if to point out something to his companion. Four men who were passing saw the gestnre and stopped to investígate, and before they had fairly fixed theii gaze upon the cornice three others joined them. "You may be right," returned the companion of the man who had first spoken, "but you said 20, you know. " Six more people, including two women, were now straining their eyes to see what was wrong with the oornic, and a rumor was in circulation that some one had tried to throw a child out of one of the Windows. This was promptly denied by the man who knows it all and who is always present on such an occasion. Be said that a gang of counterfeiters had been found on the top floor and had taken ref uge on the roof, where they were preparing to do battle witb the officers who had been sent to arrest them. Meanwhilethelittlegroup at theedge of the sidewalk had s weiled to a crowd of over a hundred. "Well, are you satisfied now?" asked the man who had first stopped. "Yes," replied his companion. "There are more than 20. " "More than 20 what?" anxiously inqnired several of those nearest the two. "ÏViols," returned the first speaker promptly, "inspiredidiots. You see, we had a dispute as to the number of fools to be seen on the streets of a great city, and I bet him we could gathor 20 around us in ten minutes by simply standing out here and looking up at the cornice. Gentlemen, there are more than 20 of you here, and I win. " Then a hundred or more solemn looking men, and a few women, went on about their business, and they all feit like kicking 'themselves without intermission f or a period of not less than two honra.-