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Show Cheese Tilth Rats Comes high. Tn the mouth of January, 1S1, when all kinds of food were at famine prices In Pari, a lady went Into a shop and asked the price of tbe-only Dutch cheese remaining In stock. "It is eighty franca,modame, replied the shopkeeper. "Eighty francs!" cried tbe lady; "why, the cheese has been eaten by ratsuyou see, and I really believe there is one in the middle of It now." "Ah!" exclaimed tho shopkeeper, "then that will make a difference In the price, ot course. If there is a rat inside the cheese, madame, I must charge you one hundred ..francs for It." San t'randtcu Argonaut. |
