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Show . Jr RATHER NECESSARY QUESTION 1 , B"t Mr. Lawton Didn't Think So and It Made Him Mad. !... Ordinarily Mr. Lawton was n rca-I rca-I sonnhlo, good-tempered man, hut hot ' weather did not ngreo with him, and a under the stress of it ho became ir-I ir-I ritnhln nnd mot unhappy. fl "I iii'vor saw anything like some of these countrymen !" he grumbled one day, when he returned from a I fishing expedition. Ho had started , J when the wind was east and the sky , overcast, onlyvto have tho wind die' down and tho sun come out hot and blinding, and hin feelings were injured in-jured in consequence, j "What's the matter now?" in-T in-T quired his wife, as 6he hastily re-1 re-1 moved some work from the chair toff to-ff ward which she saw his feet were r tending. SnjlL "Why, 1 asked a farmer out on the pBl Grcenhnrn turnpike, not more than 3 i three miles away from Long pond, ' whether I was half-way there, and R he said in the most indifferent way U that ho wasn't prepared to tell, but Hi he'd like to know where I was stop- Kj ping." "Well, didn't you tell him?" K quavered Mrs. Lawton, her face half- If hidden in her handkerchief. I "Tellium? No! What business w was it of his, particularly when he'd i refused to answer a civil question ?" 1 Haiti Mr. Lawton, indignantly. "I B . just stumped along till I came to a B guide-board. They're the most dis- 1 obliging lot!" . |