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Show Possible Only In England. A vlllngo clergyman was oxamlnlng his Sunday -school children In Scripture, Scrip-ture, nnd tho text, "The eaglo flutter-eth flutter-eth over her young," camo up for elucidation. elu-cidation. "Hove any of you soen jan eagle?" asked the vicar. Thore was a silence for a while, until ono llttlo mite vonturod to put up her hand. "And whore did you see an eaglo?" "Blackpool," replied tho child. "That's right," acknowledged tho vicar, vi-car, thinking, perhaps, that at Blackpoolwhere Black-poolwhere he had nover beon thore was a zoological garden. "How did you know it was an eagle?" No answer. "Did anyone tell you that it was an eagle?" Again a negatlvo shake. "Como, how did you know?" "Please, sir, .tftero was a lot of sho-gulls, sho-gulls, so I thought thero must bo a hegull, too." Stray Stories. |