| Show I nm COiS E EIn In Harlem n a pew Cew weeks neo ago n a man offered a friend who hall had called upon Ullon him time use ue ot of hiS umbrella as a u a had suddenly come up The friend rev reo accepted III as trl friends often orten do and marched off Into the night prom promising ising to return the umbrella the tallow follow followIng Ing da day hut Dut burrowed umbrellas like borrowed books book seldom find their own ors again aln The friend fillet to return with the umbrella the next day ur or the day after arler About a week later he called but without tie umbrella Nothing however how howlIer ever lIer wu was said about the matter lie called several leveral tines after atter that thaI and still no umbrella Time The other evening In fn pouring rain the friend called at the house houle again lie was Wall In bad Imd humor and wt wet to the skin kin Why the deuce you make use of In my umbrella Instead of at coming without one In rain 1 said the own em el or of that tha t article lU HIS friend turned pale for tor a moment but recovering himself quickly reo re replied plied Oh you know I did not wont Want to 10 bring tine the umbrella to you OU wet It I is needless to 10 uy MY that the l lla la has hall not yet lt been returned but thin IIII man who owns It has ro MO much murn fun tun tell 1111 telling In ing the story of the wonderful excuse hi his friend made to him that he does not miNI the umbrella at all allt t I |
