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Show An Unlucky Man. The unhappy Kentuckian, who bet on every race during the week and lost every time, illustrates the freaks of fortune in this respect. He had just $50 left, and in sheer desperation cried out in the crowd that assembled at the hotel alter the races: "I'll bet $50 I can name two men hero with twenty-three fingers. When the bet was taken, the child of fate continued: "Anybody "Any-body '11 do. Here, my friend, I'll take you. I have thirteen fingers, and you have ten; that makes twenty-three. twenty-three. I knew there was one bet J cauld not lose." The Blranger gazed at him a moment with a pityiog expression, ex-pression, nnd then said compassionately: compassion-ately: "Well, I'm sorry for you. 1 had three of my fingers shot oft at Chickamauga!" Nashville (Tenn.) American. |