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Show H ! MADE A SHREWD CALCULATION. : HB ' How Senator Vast, as a Boy, Got Out HB of a Tight Place. HB Senator Vest came Into tho Senato HB ) chnmber feebly; ho leaned on his HB, man scrvnnt's arm. Dut ho was In B. good spirits, nnd thero was soon gath- Hj, crcd about him a little group of states- HB 1 , Scnntor Vest began to ovoko memo- t i rles of his boyhood. HB' I' . "Onco," ho snld, "a crowd of us a HB a crowd of us boys played soldlors. ' i - Thero wero two camps. Each camp HB; JJ had a fort with a high mud wall, and ' when you put your head up abovo this HB ' . wall bang! bang! bang! a volley of B: '1 stones came at you. '1 i "Wo had strict military rules, and HB to disobey tho captnln's orders was a HB 5 , crime no ono would havo boon guilty !B j, of. Thcrcforo when I was told to go i outsldo tho fort and paco off tho dls- tnnco from our camp to tho pump t closo by tho enemy's lines I did so, HB though I was badly frightened. Stones Bj ' ' fell nil about me, and, though I paced HB J i my wny to tho pump emroctly, I qulto HB ' forgot to count my Bit,1 . So when HB , on my return tho rnptnln asked mo m whnt tho distance was I was cmbar- B ' rnssod. Hut In a moment I had a hap- HB ' py thought. HB , "'How far, captain, would you say HB It was?' I asked. HB i " 'Oh, about sovonty-flvo paces,' tho BH L captain answered. H I w " 'Thnt Is exactly right,' sold I. 'It M I ' Is sovouty-tlvo, exactly.' " |