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Show A Memory of III Youth, Two Itockbttid men wero negotiating negotia-ting to swap horses tbo other day when suddenly tho younger matt paused, scratched his head as If to recall re-call something nnd said, quizzically: "Didn't I go to your pluco otico when I was a boy to buy it horse, ami didn't you try to Induce mo to buy one whose knees wero so badly bprutig that each foreleg nlinost made a right angle?" "Hellcvo you did," replied the. other. "Yes, I now recall It distinctly," said tho younger num. "You told mo that the knee springing was caused by feeding the horse from too high a manger, man-ger, didn't you, and that if I took the horse home and fed him from the Hour that the knees would tprlug back?" "Hilevo I did," answered tho other. "Then I guess I won't swap horses with you." Lewiston Journal. |