Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — Wanted a Chance. [ARTICLE]

Wanted a Chance.

In the smoking car of a Michigan Central train a Detroit man got to going on the political situation, and as a crowd gathered around him he kept his chin working away for a full half hour without a stop. Finally- a stranger came up to him and whispered in his ear: “Cut it short, my friend—cut it short.” The Detroiter launched forth with a new idea, but at the end of ten minutes the same man whispered again : “Say, friend, aren’t yon going to divide up ? I want a chance at this crowd.” “Eh? Do you belong to the opposite partv ?” “No, sir—Pm a three-card monte man, tod I want to work the crowd and get off at Jackson.” He was given a chance.— Free Press.