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Show The Ready-Wltted Scotchman. A Scottish tourist wandering about tho streets of Paris, some distance from his hotel; found himself In a mazo from which he could not escape, and, to make things worse, ho failed, through Ignorance of the languago, to get any light to guide him homeward, says tho Scotlsh American. Then a happy thought struck hlra. ny dint of signs he concluded a bargain bar-gain with n fruit hawker for a. basketful basket-ful of gooseberries, and then to tho amazemo" of everybody, wont about shouting: "Fine Scotch grussets! a penny a pun I" This weut on for nwhlle, till a follow countryman rushed rush-ed forward to him and seizing him roughly by tho shoulder, asked: "Man d'yo think ycro in tho streets of Glesca, that yo gang about like n manmnd crying grossets7" "Kch!" ho replied, with a senso of roller, "yo'ro Just the man I was look-ing look-ing for. D'yo ken tho way to tho hotel 7" |