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Show ' 6 WMA'r- i-vsy 9 One of our prominent 'lawyer s went - 9 home the other day to dinner, and I found that his little hoy had had his . . j fl d.clipped ihu accordance with ihe&98$ " v X1M prevailing-style. Affecting nrot to no- lice it, he began to speak of a wonder- 9 ful cur'jodty on4 exhibition at the Zoo, 9 in the shape of a livirg creature wilh 9 a form something like that of a human 9 being. Its head was as round as a 9 .pumpkin, its, ears stood, otit like clam 9 shells on a cocoanut, fts'nose protrud- 9 edr like a figure four' from what seemed 9 to :be its face ; it walked upn'ght, and v 9 its head-was covered wilh a growth ot 9 ibrislles.; about ono-sixteenthof an inch 9 in"length, and for want of a better 9 iiiame-the creature had been called the 9 "What. Is It?." .And placing his 9 hand on the boy's head, the father 9 said: r Why, 'here i is,' 'now. Here's 9 the very thing I've been li'dki'ng about." The boy replied, us he buttered a piece of biscuit, They've got a blamed siglit worse Icokifig'' thing right here in this street' . i J9 What kindofa-thingistit asked .;; -S the lawyer:. i..', - 9 tatisthefathclofaheWbatJsIt?, . ! 9 replied iheboy. - '.j , ;. , The s,ubjept ,waB , di;opped- Wash- ... A ' 9 ingipn b. fi. Republican.' 9 |