People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Took Him by Surprise. [ARTICLE]

Took Him by Surprise.

“Oh, well,” said a Hartford (Conn.) photographer to a pickpocket who pulled his hat down over his eyes and averted his face, “it doesn’t make any difference to me whether 1 you are pho tographed or not I get paid just the same.” “Is that so?” exclaimed the fellow, as he looked up in surprise. The photographer, never got a better picture of a crook than the one he caught that moment— N. Y. Times. To the fanner, Nature’s story-book is a never-ending cereal