Show Y YA I A GRAVEYARD STORY Does the Constitution follow fonoW the flag asked Goldsmith of Dr Johnson John- John son with a seri serious serious- air us airIs air I thIt your Joe like I Is I ot your Millers Millers' the sausaie sausage adr oon nonsense retorted retorted re- re le learned r ed man an suspiciously ashe ashe as ashe he swall swallowed wed three saucers of tea and wiped his m mouth uth with the back of his band hand Tee hee snickered Boswell Boswen making shorthand notes on his cuff You are perfectly certain I sup sup- suppose pose pose nose resumed the Doctor fr fro Ing that you did not purpose propounding some other venerable query In the same same category of antiquated conundrums Exempla gratia gratis When Is a do door r not a adoor adoor adoor door It jar you murmured Boswell A Roland for you Oliver Not at all s said said- ld G Goldsmith un un- abashed I saw It in the headlines of ot otan an American an newspaper It may be a Joke for I dont don't understand nd their New World humor but I think It ha has had something something some some- thing t to do o with politics or an election election elec elec- tion or perhaps with law Anyway I thought you'd know La exclaimed the author of Rasselas Rasselas Ras selas looking much relieved and applyIng ap applying applying ap- ap ap- ap plying himself dIre directly to the teapot as the saucer see seemed n d superfluous in the cooling stage Then why not note go to the fountainhead L Letters sir gives way to law And he waved his hand with dignity toward Blackstone who to f further the purposes of this anecdote anecdote dote had kindly consented to be pres pres- ent Its not a question of law law explained explained ex ex- Blackstone when thus appealed appealed appealed ap ap- ap- ap pealed to I much fear that Mr Goldsmith Is trying to quiz you Boswell forgot his notes and the Doctor drained the teapot What Is this folly then he asked Tell us the answer since since you cannot trap us with such Juvenile tricks and then we may return to more seemly discourse ourse Does the Constitution tion follow tollow the flag What is the answer an an- n pray How can cin you expect to keep up with the Times if you only read a weekly paper like Uke the Spectator blurted out Goldsmith Why there Is s no answer of course Its It's merely a rhetorical question And the author of She Stoops laughed idiotically the better betterto to sustain his reputation Ne New York Herald |