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The tramp leaned against the door-jamb, while Miss Annabel Sheldon peered out at him through the screen, and he gazed past her at the kitchen table. "You look strong," said Miss Annabel. "Are you equal to the task of sawing and splitting half a cord of wood?" "Equal to it, madam?" said the tramp. "The word is inadequate. I am superior to it," and down the road drifted a cloud of dust raised by his patient, plodding feet. -Youth's Companion.

LADY-"Can't you find work?"

TRAMP-"Yessum; but everyone wants a reference from my last employer."

LADY-"And can't you get one?"

TRAMP "No, mum. Yer see, he's been dead twenty-eight years."