So, no matter how well-intentioned the purloiner might have been, he did cause a little pain, but the attempt to obviate distress marks him as a real gentleman, a thoughtful and kind person, one who in happier circumstances might have done much to assist the world in general to think along right lines to a proper refinement of conduct.
It is a pity he is not known. Such a man deserves the best the community can give him, and a holiday at the municipal boarding house is the least that should be done for him. In the meantime any others among our readers who happen to be possessed of stylish headgear would do well to keep an eye on it, for the gentleman's manners are apparently not the only taking thing about him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.