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Show "No," said the fat man, and had the grace to blush a little. "I just went out in the country a couple of miles. An old friend of mine out there asked me a year ago, and I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I went there for two weeks." Galveston News. JUST ON VISIT TO OLD FRIEND Fat Man Had Numerous Places to Go for His Vacation, but Passed Them All Up. "Going away, I see," said the tall man with the drooping mustache. The short, fat man with the checkered rest started. "llow'd you know?" he asked. The other smiled. "That was easy to a Sherlock Holmes like me," he said. "I deduce it from the big bunch af railroad timetables in your pocket." The fat man pulled out the dogeared dog-eared folders sheepishly. "Of course," he said, "I might have known." "Where are you going?" asked the thin man. "I don't just know yet," explained (he fat man. "I want to go to New Sfork for a few days just to see the little old tow-n, you know. But it costs so much. And some of my people peo-ple over in South Carolina have been after me to spend the summer with them. "Then there's California I've never been to California and I'd like mighty well to go." "And," he said, "up in Wisconsin there's the finest fishing you ever heard of. I know, because I had a letter from Jerome up there. I may take that in." Several weeks later the two met aga.iu. "Just got back," said the fat man. "Ain't I getting fat, huh?" "That's right, said the other. "Gee, you're getting a double chin. Where'd you go New York? Wisconsin? Cali fprnla?" |