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A balloonman, laughing wildly, stands on a corner.  Opposite him a younger man is selling juices and nuts.  Both men have an eye out for the patrolman who is rather indifferent to their poverty and would cart them both off to jail.      A patrolman appears, walking in the direction of the young vender.  Greeting the patrolman, the young vender offers him a grapefruit, which he accepts with a nod of the head.  Delighted, the young vender extends his generosity with a bag of nuts, which the patrolman declines and with a wave of his hand summons over a patrolwagon into which he loads the young vender and his goods.       The balloonman—now alarmed and fearing for his freedom—slips out of his shoes and with a tug on his balloon-strings rises up and out of the patrolman’s reach.

  (c)Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino 2004