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Show GOOD SAMPLE OF MEXICAN HUMOR Unique M;8:iff Left for "Jones' by a Police omeha "When you take up a residence In the City of Mexico." said an American who had lived there for several years, "you are waited upon by the police, who ask you how many beggars may call at your residence! every morning and receive a dole. Your answer is recorded, an ', only the number of beggars beg-gars mentioned dare show up. I had my brother with me at the house, and our answers to the police differed somewhat. Two weeks after their call a messenger came on an errand and inquired in-quired for Jones. " 'What Jones?' I asked. " 'Senor,' he replied, 'I know that there are two of you the Jones-you-can-send-along-about-eight-of-'em and the Jones-I-won't-fecd-a-eussed-one-ot-'em, and the Jones I want is not the first.' " 'Then, as I'm the one who said eight beggars might come around, you don't want me.' " 'It cannot he. It is- the I-won't-feed-a-cussed-one-of-'em-.Iones I want.' " 'Hut he is not in just now. Can you leave your message with me?' ' 'Si, senor. Tell him when he comes that if he don't want-to-feed-a-cussed-one-of-'em he-can-go-to-blazes-and-be-hanged-to-him.' " |