Two Ladies and a Beggar

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Anxious to avoid working for a living a vagrant contrives an appliance by means of which he appears to be deprived of his limbs and obliged to wheel himself about in a little cart, and seeks public charity. Two good old ladies take pity upon the fellow and after investigating decide to give the poor unfortunate all possible aid. Accordingly they cut down his trousers to what they deem more suitable length, secure specially appointed rooms with furniture of size and style adaptable to a man afflicted as he purports to be and even endeavor to secure him a wife from among other unfortunates of his type. All is graciously received by the impostor until the wife is tendered when he exposes himself and flees.