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Show An Amusing Turkish Story. Many a culprit has heen brought to justice by faltering in his answer to a cleverly framed question. An amusing story is told illustrating this, of the Turkish Nasir-od-din Khojah, a kind of typical scamp, like llowle-glasa, llowle-glasa, Punch and Harlequin, in western countries. coun-tries. Ho was stealing turnips from a par-den, par-den, and bad tilled a eack with them, when up rushed tho owner. "Wbnt are you doing!" do-ing!" exclaimed tbe angry proptJ.c-tor. "A violent gala of wiDd caught me up, whirled mo through tho nir and deposited mo here," eaid tbo unabashed Khojah. "Well, but bow came you to be bnhlinp some of my tuniipsf' j "Why," rtud Nnsir-M-vlin, "the wind was so very violent thnt it tossed me about, nn-4, to steady myself, I prasped theso in my hand." i "Good apain," said the owner; "but tell me ' now who Oiled tbo snekf' "Ah," replied the I Khojali "I was just considering how that question should b answered when you camo upon mo so rudely and unexpectedly." |