It was a balmy summer's evening, boys, as the goodly crowd stood there

Recitation. A tramp enters a bar and begs for a drink. Though the drinkers mock him, he tells how once he had money like them. He was an artist - who painted a famous work, "The Chase of Fame". He fell in love with a woman, Madeleine, but she fell for one of his models and left him. He sketches her face in chalk on the floor and dies