The Little Beggar

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A thinly clad pinched looking tot stands begging on the street corner. A good natured looking woman stops for a moment to speak to the child and her heart is touched as she hears the little one mutter, "I'm so hungry." By this time some other pedestrians have also stopped as they see the woman talking to the little beggar and when she turns and tells them that the child is starving they also are moved to pity and the woman soon collects quite a sum for the beggar. We next see the child outside a fashionable café. Seeing a prosperous looking man coming out of the place she timidly goes towards him and puts out her little thin hand, but he only pushes her roughly aside and hurries on. Some other diners having witnessed the incident take pity on the little one and each and every one gives her coin. The next scene holds for us a great surprise as we see the trio, the good natured working woman, the prosperous looking diner and the little beggar standing before their waiting automobile counting the day's earnings. For these three belong to that class of despicable frauds who live on the kind-heartedness of others and who have become wealthy from the money gained in this contemptible way.