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Show Anauiai and Ills Deaf Father. Dan'l was tho biggest liar in town mid Dan'l always appealed to his father to verity his fearful yarns. Dau'l's father was old, a littlo deaf, and belonged to tho Methodist church. It was not to be supposed that tho old gentleman would indorse lies, and thus the neighbors concluded. con-cluded. But hero is how Dan'l got around his poor old dad. "Wont down ter t' brook yesterday," Dan'l would relate. re-late. "Caught tew hundred find four piek'ril, say, didn't I, dad'-"' Ami tho old man, benignantly listening, would hear "four"' and meekly reply, "Yes, Dan'l." The.'i the able liar would edge around "back Ui" his father, and with the edge of his hi.nd measure off the length of his arm before the eyes of his astonished guest. "Caught one piek'ril, a who per, longe'n that, say, waru't he, dad.-'' The old man would gaze upon the six inches of scrawny wrist and forearm as wily Dan'l whirled and measured for his benefit, and humbly but firmly assort, "Vis, my son; sh'd say as how he was BUinmat longer." Lowiston Journal. |