BEGGARS' GIFTS TO EACH OTHER.
A blind beggar was observed to tap his way across a London street and hold out a coin to a legless fiddler whose position he located by sound. The cripple stopped his playing, took the proffered coin, quickly added another from the offerings in a cap beside him, and dropped both coins into the tin carried by his would-be benefactor. After an exchange of compliments the blind man applied his stick to the kerb and moved on, and the fiddler resumed his playing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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88BEGGARS' GIFTS TO EACH OTHER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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