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Show buy enough new straw to fill a couple of beds. The young fellow reached Mr. Shaw's Jus as the old gentleman, Mrs. Shaw and five likely grown girls were sitting down to dinner. With a bold effort ef-fort the bashful young fellow stammered stam-mered out: "Mister Shaw, m-moth-e-r sent me over here. Can you let let me have enough enough Shaw to 111 nil fill a couple of beds?" "I guess I can, Jimmie," smilingly replied re-plied the old gentleman, as he glanced around at the tittering daughters. "About how many do you think it will take?" "But Jimmie had gone. He saw his blunder and didn't wait for answer." KESTJLT OF BASHTTJXNE5S. "Some of my Republican friends claim that Uncle Gatsaway Davis la making some funny mistakes with his tongue, that he gets his words twisted." says Representative Griggs of Georgia. "If Mr. Davis is doing this I think it can be charged to bashfulness, and I base this on an experience of a young friend of mine who was very bashful. He lived In the country and one day his mother sent him to a neighbor, a Mr. Shaw, to And out If he could borrow or - |