TWO SAD CASES.
A professional beggar was standing with a board in front of him, with the inscription: “I am blind,” when a gentleman threw a dime on the ground.
The blind man instantly picked it up.
The gentleman said:
“Why, I thought you were blind.”
The fellow, after a moment’s hesitation, looked at the board, and then said:
“I’m bless’d if they haven’t made a mistake, and put a wrong board on me this morning. I’m deaf and dumb.”
The above reminds us of another affecting story of a kind-hearted lady who was passing a street beggar who bore on his breast a placard declaring that he was deaf and dumb. The kind lady read the placard, and said to the beggar:
“My good man, how long have you been deaf and dumb?”
“Ever since my birth,” the man ingenuously answered.