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Show A Oueitr Whim. An English nobleman a good many many years ago took ;i into his head to live for several weeks on Mount Etna in tin.' refugo 1,000 feet or so below the crater. This worthy, but slightly cracked, crack-ed, gentleman endured his hard fare of biscuits and tinned meats well enough for a fortnight at a time. Every fifteenth fif-teenth day, however, he rode down the mountain to the nearest village, some j twenty miles away, and reveled in all i the savory dish'-s. the innkeeper could put, before him; after which banquet ho returned to his mountain perch, urd i once again to comparative privation. I All the Year Round. ) |