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Show WHY HZ WAS INSOLENT. The desirability of ascertaining every detair before Imitating the practices even of Intimate friends is well Illustrated Illus-trated by the following story,, which used to be told with much enjoyment by a well-known nobleman: A footman went on a visit to a fellow servant In the country, and while the two were at lunch the master a septuagenarian sep-tuagenarian squire rang Impatiently. "Confound him," said the major-domo, major-domo, "how troublesome he Is; he wants his luncheon, I suppose. Come upstairs and you'll see what a lesson I'll give him." . ' The visitor accompanied his friend to the ante-room of the squire's bedchamber, bedcham-ber, and heard him address his master In an angry tone. "What the deuce do you mean by disturbing me at my meal? I tell you flatly I'm not going to stand that sort of thing, and If It goes on you and I will part I have brought you something to eat, which Is more than you deserve." The old gentleman did not reply, and the visitor thought it a marvelous example ex-ample of discipline, so when he returned home he tried similar treatment with his old master, who, however, instead of meekly submitting, stared at the man In amazement for some minutes and then rang the bell. . "Let this fellow," he said to the servant ser-vant who answered the summons, "be stripped of my livery and kicked out of the house; he shall have no character from me unless I write one on his back with a horsewhip." The dismissed valet rushed to 'his rrlend and complained that his experiment experi-ment had not worked satisfactorily. "Ah," said the successful disciplinarian, disciplina-rian, "perhaps I forgot to mention to ?uJ.hat my master is stone-deaf." |