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Show Hi j Here's a tale of a blue pencil. It's also a tale H( ' ' !' of Richard Mansfield, who had been misquoted so HJ ' ' frequently that in the early days of our friend- Hf T' ship it was hard to get him to consent to an inter- HJ9 view for publication. So this plan was formu- Hn ' ":i lated: After the chat the interview was to be Hi 1 written and sent to Mr. Mansfield for revision before being published. M " i,1 Under those conditions the interview was grant- W' ed. The chat was put on paper and the manu- m ; , I j script sent to Mr. Mansfield in a bulky envelope. 1' , I Inclosed a nice new blue pencil, told Mr. Mans- ii v field I was keeping my word, and for him to kindly l'! ' j send the revised interview to me before 4 o'clock .4'.,. that afternoon, inasmuch as I was going out of ' '. town and wanted to see a type proof of it b6foro HW 'i; ; Ileft. M U Four o'clock passed. At quarter after four I if'ijij' grew impatient. At half past, more so; at 5, flB I j H worried. I waited until 6 o'clock, and then know- H "' j' ing that he always went to the theater at 7, penned j'i'!': i' a note to him, calling his attention to the fact that ijjta ; I had sent him a blue pencil to revise the inter- ji "i ' view, and to please "give the manuscript to bearer. HiVlrffi The office boy returned In due time minus the K ;. j ' j manuscript. Instead, Mr. Mansfield had given him H K, : '' a note. It was short and to the point. It said: HB;Yi ' "Dear Sir Received your blue pencil and have HRifih i used all of it. Please send me another. Hi : !, RICHARD MANSFIELD." HBf j N For ten minutes after that note was received the HHmIV' ' air was Dluer than a million gross of blue pencils HHIijT could have made it. Later well, there's not a JBflfjf II ' particle of use scolding when one may laugh. One's lUfllBw II s as cheap as the other and the laugh does you Hfiraffllf i more good. New York Telegraph. HHi 1 1 |