The Hungry Dog

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A little man got up on a box one day at the corner of Broadway and 44th Street and tried to sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents. He got no buyers and after a while began acting so strangely that the men had to come and take him away in the wagon.

Johnny Fletcher had been one of those who passed up the opportunity to buy one-dollar bills at a discount and when he read in the papers the next morning that the little man was crazy and that his bargain bills had actually been genuine, he went out and got himself pleasantly crocked.

And then, the very next day, he was walking down 45th Street and saw a battered straw hat lying on the sidewalk. He gave it a mighty kick — and there was a brick under the hat.

When he was able to walk again he didn’t feel so badly about the crazy little man with the dollar bills. In the long run, he felt, you were just as well off to be cynical.

So, today, Johnny Fletcher stood on his own soap box and looked at the sea of skeptical faces and knew that very little money was going to come out of this crowd.

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