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He Moved Them On

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Their fixed and glassy eyes were sufficient indication oL their condition announced to all the world by the placards they wore on their breasts bearing the legend, "I am blind," in large black letters, says the New York Telegram. In the left hand of each was a large tin cup and in their right hands they carried long sticks with which to direct their steps. Their anus were locked together and the sticks were kept busy directing their wandering steps. They lurched around the corner of the Herald building and brought up one on either side oí the bulletin board. Krom this coign of vantage the two emitted shrieks of hearty, wholeBOiiled merriment from time to time, for both were drunk, gloriously drunk. Bliivlness was for the time being a forgotten condition. V ons as good as realty started out oL the darkness before the sightless eyes of each. AU humanity was fcin to the two, and they were proelaiming the fact to the attentive world represented by the night birds that make the street their home, A torpid cop was awakened frooo his slumbers by the unusual noise and j pared with uplifted elub to enforce the majosty oí tüe law. When he saw the gardboard placarás, however, he changed his mind and muttered: "Poor devils! it's little enough fun they have. ril just move them on a bit and leave them be." Drunkenness i no respecter ot con! atttOBi sirange to say, the law sometimes is.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register