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Show Tale's Windup Merely Made Matters Worse Representative Homer Lyon of North Carolina was talking iu Whiteville about an Old World complication. "When America stepped in," he said, "a very plausible yarn was told us, but this plausible yarn didn't alter a pretty horrid state of affairs. "A minister was calling on a lady when her young son galloped into the room. High over his head he held a rat by the tail. "'We got him in the cellar, mamma,' the little fellow piped. 'Don't be afraid. He's dead all right. We lammed him and beat him and jumped on him till ' "Here the boy noticed the minister for the first time 'until,' he wound up in a low, pious voice, 'God called him home.' " Los Angeles Times. |