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Show Assaulted on His Soft Side. The young man stood before the grim old captain of industry and looked look-ed him full in the face. "Well, sir," said Horatlous J. Hard-rox, Hard-rox, "you wished to see me, I believe?" be-lieve?" "No, sir. I did not wish to see you. I am not here because I wish to be, but because it is necessary. You have a daughter. I will not ask' you to sacrifice sac-rifice any of your valuable time in listening to a catalogue of her charms. You probably have noticed most of them. I will come down to business, sir, at once. She and I desire de-sire to merge our interests, and I trust that I have made no bull in hoping hop-ing you may r.ot take a bearish attitude atti-tude toward the proposed combination." combina-tion." "Trust combination, bull and bear merge? All right. Take her, my boy. You seem to be oue of us." |