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Show j A Believer. I Gifford Pinchot, at his brother's house, in Park avenue. New York, 11s-j 11s-j tene'l quizzically to a political story that was being submitted to him for verification by a political reporter. I When1 the reporter finished his nar- rative Mr. Pinchot laughed and said: ' "I'll reply to that as the old Italian peasant replied to the statement that j his fellow-countryman loved birds too well ever to eat them: " 'Well, I don't mind believing that myself," the old man said, "but there's a good many who wouldn't.' " |