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Show Kie flot a Fotnter. Two men were playing a gwme of encbrc in a drawing room car on the Erie road, and a little woman who had a seat near by watched the play with great interest. in-terest. Finally, sn certain play wm made ahe oslcedt "Did he take tAt Wck with the king o! hearts?" "Yes'm." "Ho took your queen with his king?" "Jtiiit so, ma'am." "But a quen is high than a king." "Oh, no, ma'am, the queen ranks ono below the king." "Is that so everywhere?" "Yefi'm." "Can't be no mistake?" "Not the slightest. Don't you play?" "Not much. My husband set out to learn me, but I took all his kings with my queens, and he got mad, and quarreled about it, and, and" "And you don't play any more?" "N no, sir, but I'll telegraph him within tho next ten minutes that I was wrong, aud that all in forgiven, and that I'll return and let liim even take the bowers with ten spots if he wants to!" New York Sun, |