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Show ACCORDING TO ROBINSON. "Do you know anybody by the name of 'Robinson T" queried a little old man who got off the train from Cutchogue the other day and addressed himself to a depot policeman. po-liceman. "I don't think I do." was the reply. "What's his business?" "He gets up a dictionary." "I never heard of him. Perhaps you mean W'ebster?" "Koap. It's Robinson and no one else. I didn't know but he might live here in Brooklyn. It's of no great account, bow-ever." bow-ever." Being asked to state his case more particularly, par-ticularly, he took a chew of tobacco from a rusty tlrf box and replied: "I met a feller on the train who looked as humble as a cat and as meek as a rabbit, rab-bit, and I was thinkln' what a soft mark he'd be fur a confidence man, when he softly and humbly says to me: " 'My friend, are you goin" to Brook-lane Brook-lane r " 'I am.' says I. t " 'Is It much of a townf says he. " 'It's a buster,' says L " 'But it's got a funny name. -" 'I don't see nuthln' funny about lt 'It's in the spelUn' says he. 'I wonder won-der why they spell it Brooklane? " 'Becausa they don't,' says L It's spelled "lyn." Instead 'of "lane." " 'Mebbe you spell it that way,' says he, but accordin' to Robinson It'a lane. They got the name from a brook ronnin' through a lane, probably. You are 'way off.' j " Tm wlllin' to bet $3 I ain't,' says I. Doane.' says he, and be pulls out a book and shows me where it's spelled with a lane. I felt mighty cheap over it, as I'd been spellln' Brooklyn the other way all my life, and 1 hadn't got over It when the meek and lowly critter turns on me and says: " 'Mebbe you Tcnow how to spell Coney island, which is a daisy of a place In summer? sum-mer? " 'Mebbe I do,' says I. " 'Howu you havs ltr - " 'With a big C, of course . " Is It $1 more accordin' to Robinson T "Yes, or accordin' to anybody else. "Then he pulls out that book and shows me that It's spelled with a big K. the same as Krtstopher. If he'd chuckled over It I should hev rot mad. but he didn't even grin. By and by, after a leetle thinkln. I says: 'Mebbe yon don't believe Jamaica is spelled with a big J r " 'Not fur $V savs be, I whAcked up more, and be shows me P book th&t lt' spelled with a O. At that I quit. I thought I was up to d&te, but these dictionaries are a long ways ahead of me." .."Ancl J,ov .7 u w Robinson's dio-u?.aiLy.- Mke the officer. 'Rbuison's, sir. He had thousands of things all written down In lt" "Wasn't It Robinson himself who was talkin' to your- WB "It might have been, though be didn't Introduce himself." 1 "Well, the only Information I can give you is that they keep sandpaper la that hardware store across the way." "And I ought to buy some and sandpaper sand-paper my head I" "Yes a dosen sheets." lHibu oli man-. and nei" Much obliged for your advice, and. Say. shaU blg8crr 8adpair wlUl big S or a But the officer's eyes filled with tears and he turned away without replying. Brooklyn Citizen. |