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Show ' How. the Walls Ban Down. (From the Irish Independent.) The Irishman who went uo in the hotel lift without knowing what it was did not recover easily) from the surprise. sur-prise. He relates the story in this way "I win, to the hotel, and says I, 'is Misther Smith' 'n?' j " 'Yes,' says the man with the sojer cap. 'Will yez step in?' "So I steps into the closet, and all of a suddint he pulls the rope, and it's the truth, l'se tellin yes the walls of the building begun running down to the cellar. . " 'Och. murther!' savs I. 'what'll become be-come of Bridget and the children which was left below there?' TSays the ! sojer-cap man, "Be aisy sorr: they'll be : all . right when yez comes down.' " 'Come down, is it,' says I. 'And it is no closet at all,, but a haythenish balloon bal-loon that yez got me in!' "And wid that the walls stood stock still, and he opened the door, and there I was wid the roof just over my head! And, begorra, that's what saved me from go in up to the .hevins intirely!" o W -V |