A BUSINESSLIKE BEGGAR.
They tell a story of an enterprising beggar of Paris who went about with a sign "I am blind" hung around his neck.
"But you are not blind!" said a man of whom he asked alms.
"I know that," said the beggar. "But the man whose business I bought was. He used to make ten francs a day on this route with this sign. I bought him out. Pray help a poor blind man a little, sir."