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Show A man who returned from a yachting trip, which for' some part of the time included in-cluded Mr, Edwin Booth as a guest, tells the following good story of professional repartee-between Mr. Booth and Mr. La Montague, the well known amateur. No sooner bad Mr. Booth come aboard the yacht than he was seized with a violent attack of attention to the waves at the side of the vessel. Mr. Booth's attention atten-tion was engrossed hore for a long time, and when he returnod to the party with, as one of them said, everything lost save honor Mr. La Montague said in mild reproof, "Wby, Mr. Booth, is that the way you are given to gagging your parts?". "Not at all," said Mr. Booth, seating himself in his best tragedy style, "not at all. I simply didn't like the reception that these swells gave me, and so I threw np the part." Nw York Evening Even-ing Sun. |