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Show Every time Sali, his African servant, approached the den the least thing he expected was that the inkstand would be thrown at his head1. One day he originated a new way of saving his head. He had a telegram to doliver, so he ingeniously fixed it on the end of a long bamboo, and fatting the door just ajar he poked it into the room and bolted. Although averse to reading correspondence, correspond-ence, aitley read some letters with keen delight, and one in particular from a little girl. It contained the following characteristic lines: "It was very kind of you to go through such perils to rescue Emin Pasha. I liked so much to hear of your fighting against the dwarfs, and should like to see one very much. They must look so funny, being so small. I am a little school girl at school, and I am 11 years old. I am very fond of geography, and am always longing to go round the world." Scribner's. Stanley After His Return. Nothing worried Stanley more than a tap at the door while ho was writing. He sometimes glared like a tiger ready to spring. When his courier knocked tremblingly at his door he would cry out," Am I a prisomrr in my own house?" "I've brought you this telegram, sir." "Well, I detest telegrams. Why do you persist in bjinging them?" |