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Show Huilly Crippled. A. party of Americans, including three or four boys and girls, wore not long ago visiting an ancient church in a French provincial city. Art agod beadle showed them the objects of interest. "Whose portrait is tliis?" asked one of i the girls, indicating an ancient canvas upon which the face and form of man In armor could barely be made out. "That," aid the beadle, after stopping to take a pinch of snuff, "is the celobrat-ed celobrat-ed Grand Duke Anatole, the founder of the church." "Was he a great soldier?" "Yes; but ho had the misfortune to lose u leg or an arm iu every battle in which he took part." "How many battles did he take part in?' asked one of tho boys. The beadle, who was expecting a sneeze, looked skyward a minute, then sneezed violently, used his handkerchief, handker-chief, and answered: "Twenty-four!" Youth's Companion. |