The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

the liberal example, and the lost dollar
Is thus easily made up. The whole
thing, however, is only trick, in which
two or three are generally engaged,
and a hundred steps further on the ac-
complete awaits the fortunate result.
If, as at times will occur, the police
interfere, the father himself comes up
and confirms his sons statement; but
more often the unhappy boy bolts on
the appearance of the sergeant de
Vile. The Parisians are well aware of
these tricks, but this does not prevent
them from being taken in again and
again; but foreigners are the principal
persons on whose purses the swindlers,
great and small, speculate. Thus,
some years ago, a man went from hotel
to hotel in the Faubourg st. Honore,
who knocked at every door and begged
for aims, $50 that he could bury his
only son, who had died yesterday"
The man, though he wore blouse,
looked perfectly respectable and hon
est; he wept bitter tears at the same
time, described his sons illness and
sufferings circumstantially, and in con-
c1usion produced n sum of four dollars,
which he had a ready collected, but he
must have eight, as the funeral cost
that amount. This man had been iv-
ing on his sons burial about two
years.
With the nightfall other industrials
are visible, who can only show in the
evening. A man comes up and posts
himself in the middle of the road, puts
his hat cautiously and mysteriously on
the ground, with a candle by its side,
and then begins his pathetic address.
His object is to attract public attention
Y - nh Sc l,fI1ay, tho haf
''Never, so long as Paris has existed, -
| he exclaims, ''has any thing so cheap.
so fine, so remarkable been seen. The
| greatest savants are not agreed as to
/ the solution of the marvel" The hat
| still remains at the same spot; at times
| the orator prepares to raise it, but hes
| itates, and begins his speech afresh.
! This lasts a good quarter of an hour
/ and longer, according to the impa-
/ thence of the hearers, who at length
throw him a couple of pennies so that
| he may raise his hat What is then
visible is naturally not worth the
| trouble; a gold watch chain for five
| cents, small ''gold" rings, with ''reap'
stones, for two cents, or something Of
the sort. Many 60 away annoyed and
/ abuse the humbug, who probably has
not breakfasted yet though it is nine
/ o CLOCK at night. Inc CnalTS on Gu0
| boulevards on fine afternoons, although
there are thousands of them, are all
engaged; you seek IN vain an empty
one. 1t is of no use. "a kingdom
for chair!" A clean lad at once Of
fers us two for monsieur ct madame;
he has engaged them at his own risk,
and paid two cents apiece for them, so
we give him ten cents.
For the following trick two gamins
are needed, but they are easily found.
An elegant gentleman comes up, who
is glad to get off the dirty macadam on
to the clean trottoir. The gentleman
steps daintily through the mud, but,
| unluckily, a gamin stumbles against
his stick, which falls in the dirt. An
other gamin (the accomplice), how
ever, runs up at once, picks the stick
out of the dirt, wipes it clean and
hands it to the gentleman, who is glad,
at any rate, to save his new gloves.
This service is worth its couple of
cents. ''Why do not the rascals
work?" one may ask. Well, the truth
is, the Partisan gamin is vagabond,
and if he worked like other honest
people the French capital would be
poorer by one of its most interesting
types. Besides the gamins are not so
very bad, for nearly all, as they do not
know what else to do, volunteer in
their seventeenth year and become cap
ital food for powder. Brooklyn Eagle.