An Easy Bet To Win

They stepped to the edge of the sidewalk and looked long and earnestly in the direction of the cornice of one of the big buildings. Of course under the circnmstances the man who had been standing in the doorway feit impelled "to join them. Hecould not eeeanything extraordinary at the top of the building, bat he kept his eyes upturoed becanse 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 yon so, " eaid the man who had first cast his eyes in that direction, and he made a motion as if to point ont Bomething to his companion. Fonr men who were passing saw the gesture and stopped to investígate, and before they had fairly fixed their gaze upon the cornioe three others joined them. "Yon may be right, " returned the companion of the man who had first spoken, "bnt yon said 20, you know. " Six more people, including two women, were now straining their eyes to see what was wrong with the cornic, 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 Buch an occasion. He baid that a gang of counterfeiters had been found on the top floor and had taken refuge on the roof, where they were preparing to do battle with the officers who had been sent to arrest them. Meanwhile the little group at the edge of the sidewalk had swelled to a crowd of over a hundred. "Well, are you satisfled now?" asked the man who had first stopped. "Yes," replied his companion. "There are more than 20." "More than 20 wbatr" anxiously inquired several of those nearest the two. "Fools," returned the first speaker promptly, "inspiredidiots. Yon see, we had a disputo as to the number of fools to be seén 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 aornice. 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 hcrars.-