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TRAMPS NOT ALL IGNORANT.
ONE TAUGHT SCHOOLBOYS ALGEBRA AND ANOTHER
PLAYED CLASSIC MUSIC.
A
HENRY F. MILLER
FEW days ago a party of some five or six school-
boys, on their way home, stopped in front of the
home of one»of their number. The conversation
went from one study to another until it reached the
subject of algebra; here it stopped; one of the boys de-
clared himself unable to perform a difficult problem in Take the lead in the A R T OF P I A N O B U I L D I N G . Three Sizes of Crand Pianos,
quadratics which had been assigned to him. His com- all 7 1-3 octaves. A dozen different styles of Uprights, four styles of the famous Squares, and the
panions tried to help him, but after all hands had failed
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it was given up as a bad job.
An old and besotted-looking individual who was
shovelling coal a few doors away had been watching the
boys for some time, with a look of amusement on his
grimy face. After each one had tried and failed, he
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slowly laid down his shovel, picked up a piece of coal,
and, walking up to the boys, requested permission to
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look at the problem. After a good deal of laughing it was
shown to him, and without saying a word he quietly set
to work, and in a few moments had correctly completed
the example, writing it out on the pavement with the
bit of coal. The boys looked on in wonderment, and
could hardly believe their eyes, but were not slow to
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take advantage of the state of affairs, and in a few
moments the work on the sidewalk had been transferred
to paper.
The coal heaver in the mean time had resumed his
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him he was disappearing in the side door of a saloon.
On another occasion a party of four men and one
woman were seated in the parlor of a hotel not far from
this city. Adjoining the parlor was the barroom. Lean-
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countrymen. At one of the "tables sat a tramp half
asleep. His arm was curled up, forming a support for
his shaggy head, which was covered with a tattered
slouch hat of ancient manufacture. Suddenly, through
the half open door, there came the sound of music; the
loungers stopped drinking for a moment, but almost
immediately resumed their occupation. Nobody noticed
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the tramp. At th» first sound he had raised his head
from the table, and his eyes seemed glued to the door
through which the music came. As it proceded he rose
and tottered toward it, but just as he entered the room
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the music stopped. All eyes turned on the tramp, who
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was making straight for the piano, which he reached a
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moment later. Lightly running his dirty fingers over
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the keys, suddenly he began to play Mendelssohn's
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" Wedding March." For nearly half an hour the tramp
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with a touch and execution that was itself a marvel.
The listeners sat astonished and in silence that was not
broken until the tramp, rising from the piano, took up
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his hat, and, going through the barroom to the door,
disappeared down the muddy road.—N. Y. Sun.
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