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Show WOULD FINISH BOOK BEGUN 20 YEARS AGO t Man in Military Hospital Will Conclude Con-clude "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Uy International News Service. LOXDOX, Feb. 9. '-Reading should be a joy, not a penance," said Mr. Pett Ridge, after distributing prizes and certificates cer-tificates to pupils of the City of London college. "Above all," he added, "learn to skip. Skipping Is an exercise which prevents obesity of the mind." "In a military hospital," he said, "a man a-sked me whether I could get him 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He said: " "I began it twenty years ago. 1 borrowed it from another man. Somebody Some-body pinched it from me when I was half way through it and I've never had a chance of petting to the end of it.' "I found the book and took It to him. He said: ' 'I'm very glad to have it. I began it twenty years ago ' I said: 'Yes. but you've read a large number of books since tiien. haven't you?' The man replied: re-plied: "Oh, no. I never tried another.' " Another story of the agent of a pill and ointment firm who was sent into a foreign country. As a first step toward business he compiled a long list of complaints, com-plaints, beginning with "asthma" and ending with "zymotic diseases." His goods, he said, would cure ill I of these ailments and then, as a sort of postscript, he added: "If there should be any complaints existing in this country which are unknown un-known in England, the pilis and ointment will cure them also." |