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Show Not Much of a Mystery. Tenants of a certain npurtment houso were mystified on noticing two long poles with red rags dangling from tho ends, attached to tho front ve-randn. ve-randn. "It's the surveyors," explained some. "Thoso things nro surveyor' rods." "It'a housebreakers," opined others "They've put thoso up to Identify our house. Thoy will como some night and rob It." In their perplexity tho tenants sought out the landlord. "Do you know anything about those poles?" they asked. The landlord did. "I put them there myself," ho said. "They're to scare off tho sparrows." Tho landlord, It doveloped, hated the small birds, and had Improvised these I "scarecrows" with the Idea of frightening fright-ening them away. |