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Show ONE Or HIS OWN. They 1.llcnnl iind Nngireiitwl tml Then Curried IIS lit Out. ! no Has a large, beefy man, with a 1 shaggy ulster, a cockney accent, mutton ! chop "whiskers, and wore creased trou-j trou-j sers with the bottoms turned up. j "Is this the conundrum department?" be said. "I've aw one of mo own you can publish in to-morrow ma wni rig's papali if yon like. When is a fia't just any common conlbigWHtiou, you know' when is a Hah not a fiah? (live it up?" "When it's a-kindling?" hazarded the man at the exchange table, "NVo. That's good, though doosid good, Guess again." "When it's a-going?" ventured tho an-j an-j swers-to-querioH man. i "That's doosid good, too, but it isn't ! the right, awnsah." j "When it's alarming?" suggested the art editor. "lla! r,a! That's not it, eithah." "When it's a-spreading?" conjectured the World's fair editor. i "No-o! You cawn't guess it. When is a fiah not a tiahf Givo it np?" ! "Yes." I "When ifsout. Ha! ha! Sic When ; its" ; But those four mon rose np as one man. They walked him out in tho hall and I hurried him toward tho stairway. There was a short struggle, and then a muffled , sound as of some heavy body falling and bumping down, down, down and all was still. Then those four men came back into tho room, wiped their. hands on the spotless oftice napkin, resumed j their customary places, and nothing was heard but the scratching of their pens for tho next hour and a half. Chicago i Tribune. |