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Show Paying for the Bulge. Mr. Graball was the owner of several sev-eral dilapidated houses, and the way he dealt with his tenants would have turned Shylock green with envy. No one knew how it was the houses stood. Reports had it that the wall paper held them together; but in one house the paper had come off the wall.. As a result the latter bulged dangerously. Forthwith Mr. Graball ' raised the rent. . . "Five shillings more a month!" exclaimed ex-claimed the wretched tenant. "And with these bulging walls?" . ' "Certainly, madam," said' the landlord land-lord blandly. "Y'ou have more room so of .course, you must pay for it." |