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Show Rurnum's Ancient Anecdote. ' Burnum himself is an infant in arms as compared with the age of this story. It is about the meanest man on earth. A grocer and genoral dealer advertised a drink with each purchase. Ho took trade. A mean man came in with an egg worth a cent and traded it for a darning needle, also worth a cent. Then he demanded his drink and took sherry. Ho said he always had to have an egg in his sherry and the dealer broke the egg he had just received from him in the sherry. It happened that the egg had two yolks, and so the meanest man demanded de-manded two darning needles because of the two yolka. Detroit Free Press. 1 ... |