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Show His Hobby. A gentleman formerly attached to the American embassy at London tells how an old country sexton in a certain English town, in showing visitors round the church yard, used to stop at one tomb and say: "This 'ere is the tomb of 'Enry 'Ooper, an' 'is eleven wives. "Eleven!" excalimed a tourist, on one occasion. "Dear me! That's rather a lot, isn't it?" Whereupon the sexton, looking gravely at his questioner, replied: "Well, mum; yet see, it war an 'obby of 'is'n." Harper's Magazine. |