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Show Snort Stories BY SPECIAL FAVOR. Tattlor. He was a young and smart-looking Scots clergyman, and was to preach a "trial" sermon in a strange church. Fearing that his hair might be disarranged disar-ranged or that he might have a smugc on his faco, he quietly and significantly said to tho beadle, there being no mlr -ror In the vestry. "John, could you get me a glass?" John disappeared, and after a few minutes returned with something under his coat which, to tho astonishment of the divine, he produced In the form of a bottle with a till of whisky In It, saying, "Ye munna let on nboot It, meenlster, for I got It as a special favor; and I wadna hae got It ava If I hadna told them It wns for YOU." ROSSETTf TAKEN AT HIS WORD. When Rosscttl was a student of art ho one day happened to go with some fellow students to the East end of London. Lon-don. There, at a wharfsidc inn, he saw an Immense canvas on tho barroom wall. After laughing nt It for some time, and thus provoking the Innkeeper's Innkeep-er's wrath, tho following conversation took alaco: "Where did you get that picture?" "Oh, never mind, young man, where I zoi It." "What price do you set on It?" "More than you can afford." "Indeed," said Rosscttl. "Now, how much?" "Three thousand pounds,-" replied the Innkeeper. At this there was a loud burst of laughter from the young artists. "Do you know how much I would glvo you for your 3000 picture?" "How much?" asked the Innkeeper. "Three youndB," said RossettL "Done," said the innkeeper, promptly; prompt-ly; nnd to his amazement and amusement amuse-ment Rossetll found himself the owner of the colossal daub FROM HER OWN MOUTH. Chicago Journal. The following was a wordy contest between a hostler and a counsel: "Now, I ask you, sir, under what authority au-thority are you prepared to swear to the mare's age7'' "Under what authority?" said the hostler, Interrogatively. "You are to reply, and not to repeat tho question put to you." "I don't consider a man's bound to answer a question afore he's time to turn It In his mind." "Nothing can be moro simple, sir, than the question put, and I repeat IL Under what authority do you swear to the animal's age7" "The best authority," said the witness, wit-ness, sruffly. "Then why such evasion? Why not satte It at once7" "Well, then, If you must have it " "Must! I will have it!" Thundered the counsel, interrupting the witness. "Well. If you must and will have It," rejoined the hostler, with Imperturbable Imperturb-able gravity, "why, then, I had It myself my-self from the mare's own mouth!" |