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Show Willing to Lbrih. A Buffalo lady, showing a friend from Eos-ton Eos-ton her fine house and grounds, explained that a pipe which ran across tho lawn was intended in-tended to supply a fountain, "but," she added, "it uoi'su't work now; it's bust." j Madam's daughter, much mortified, took the fir.t opportunity to whisper in hor : mother's ear: "Ma, you shouldn't say 'bust, eay 'buret.'1' Ma, nt too old to learn, made gratetul mental note, nud later on was quick to seize au .opportunity to regain the ground she had presumably lost. A chief ornament of madam's drawing room was' a marblo presentment pre-sentment of her departed husband. To this she called the guest's attention. "It is a burst of my dead husband," she said, with infinite complacency. The guest has gone back to Boston. Buffalo Buf-falo pxpress. |