Show TURNED JOKE ON HIS FRIEND In This Case Last Laugh Was Decidedly Decid-edly the Best J Q Hoyt once postmaster at Bar net Vermont and Soth Ford White Mountain stage line owner also of Barnet were great friends and were always playing Jokes on each other Hoyt was a tailor his shop being opposite Mr Fords residence Ford once bought a suit of clothes ot Hoyt who told him they were halt cotton Ford took them home His wife looked them over and told him they were all cotton and no half about it He took them back and said Hoyt you said these clothes were half cotton cot-ton They are said Hoyt Well what Is the other half That Is cotton too Some time afterward Hoyts store anti the safe keys I wero missing They wero supposed to have been dropped by him Into a box of suspenders while he was showing a prospective buyer the stock and that the next pair of suspenders ho sold he sold tho keys with them In some way Ford got the keys and returned them to Hoyt saying Here Hoyt do these belong to you 1101101 them under my chicken roost |