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Show A Hospitable Chinese. It wns high noon, nnd Monday. Worse jet, It wns the thirteenth day nf the month A knock wns heard nt the kitchen door of the Duma mansion man-sion The Chinese servant opened the door A tramp of long and varied expel ex-pel lence accocted him. "I vo been traveling nnd hnve pla)cd In might) hard luck," observed the tiamp ' I lost nil my money In nn attempt at-tempt lo coiner oats, and now 1 m nun-gr), nun-gr), very, very hungr). Can't ou r lento give mo n little bite of something some-thing to eat?" , 1 he Chlnannn comprehended the situation sit-uation at once A benevolent, placid smile epieud over hla entire countenance, counte-nance, "lou llkco lilsh?' ho nsked ot tho tramp ' Ves, I like fish first rnte. Tint will do ns well aa anything," Come nidi),' sail the hospitable heathen Philadelphia Ledger. |