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...Chicago, one "Herman," short, slender, redhaired, obsequious, shrewdest of elevator operators, reported for work one morning last week bearing a large brown-paper bundle. All that day, going up and down, he kept the bundle beside him. Whenever a prosperous and goodnatured face appeared in the car, a face which Herman had seen often before and so might judge belonged to an office-renter in that huge office building, he modestly fished into the bundle, drew out a smaller bundle wrapped in reddest tissue paper and tendered it, with winning humility, to the chosen passenger...
...Tsnot very much, Sir," Herman mumbled each time. "But, Merry Christmas...
Like the outsides of the small bundles, the insides were all alike. At a five-&-ten-cent store Herman had purchased some six dozen nickel-plated ash trays. Commuters in that office building compared gifts going out on the 5:15. They showed their prizes to their wives; in voices trembling with affection they told the story of humble Herman and his Christmas spirit...
...before Christmas, Herman's trouser pocket began to bulge. Now and then, as he reached for the door lever, his pocket clinked. Going up from the ground floor, coming down from the sky, hearty businessmen full of good breakfast or luncheon, swooped under their overcoats and brought out folded bills, crumpled bills, gold coins...
...Herman N. Bundesen, health commissioner, Berlin...