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Show JONESBY'S'JOKE, ' STf$ 3wo Mice -in a Candy Box and WhAt Th?y Did. Mr. Giddy iiivrited two .friends 4o dine withhim the other evening, ' 'ndwhen therst'of them arrived ihe found the:hostiin a very merry rnood. i "Glad you ;got ihere first," he) - .said. "I've got a joke on Jonesbyi that the boys wilLtell around thd office for a year, and I want to tell jrou about it before ihe comes in." "Jonesby is something of a joker himself .isn't he?' returned the iguest. "He thinks so now.but he won't ,fter'he find3 out. Yoa see ;he's, played a lot of :fool trioks on me "Ihat he thinks funny and I've been waiting to get even. Of late he's taken to bovine lots of necktie nd keeping a comb in his desk, nd the boys think he's in love rith the typewriter." ' " Well, that's no joke, I'm. sure." "I wasn't sure about it myself . until to-day, when Isaw him sneak in and lay on her desk a big-candy Jbox, done up in -white paper and tied with blue ribbon. If hd Jiadu't run away as fast as he could Sie'd have heard me laughing, foi' I couldn't restrain it another 4BecomU" . "Well?" said the guest, who was vrondering how soon dinner would lfcejirvod. 4 |