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Show "TOMMY" THOMPSON'S SHAVE. "Tommy" Thompson, one of tbe best known traveling salesmen of New England, bad an amusing experience recently in a hotel In northern Maine. Being in need of a shave, and having only a few minntea to catch hia train, be went into the barber abop early one morning. The only other occupant was a yonng colored man to whom he aaid "Shave" as lie sank into the chair. "Well, aah, bat" remonstrated the colored col-ored youth. "I haven't tima to talk." taid 'Tommy," "bnt I want a shave, and I want it quick." Tha youth set to work, and at the conclusion con-clusion of the job "Tommy" waa horrified to find several livid cuts upon bis face. "You apology for an artist," he eaid to the now terrified boy, "do you call your-aelf your-aelf a barber t" "So, air; I'se de bootblack,'' vn tie answer. Bostpn .Herald. f |