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Show j Kipling Agreed With Him. It is related of Rev. Geerrge Macdon-ald. Macdon-ald. Pudyafd Kipling's maternal grandfather, grand-father, that in the days when he was courting the lady whom lie afterwards married, the father-in-law to be an aged Methodist with extremely strict notions in regard to the proprieties was injudicious enough on one occasion to enter the drawing room without giving giv-ing any warning of his approach. The consequence was that he found the young lovers occupying a single chair. Deeply, shocked by the spectacle the old man solemnly said: "Mr. MacdonaJd, when I was courting court-ing Mrs. Prown she sat on one side of the room and I on the other." Mr. Macdonald's reply was: - "That's just what I should have done, sir, if I had been courting Mrs. Brown." |