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Show U His Reference. In the courso of a conversation between be-tween two men at tho club last night ono of thorn jokingly remarked ihat a man with a "cheek" could get anything any-thing ho desired, and ho backed up his statement with tho following story: One of his friends, a merchant, had advertised for a porter. A big, burly Irishman applied for tho job. After looking him over tho merchant was satisfied with his appearanco; tho only objection was tho question of references, and tho Irishman did not seem to have a very good ono. "Can you get no better referenco than this?" asked tho merchant. "O yls, Sor; I kin git ye tho very best kind of a wan, if that's all yo want, Sir; and I don't havo to go far for it, either. Mo farther and mo morthor, Sor, livo down tho Ethratc, and thoy'vo known mo all mo life And he landed tho job. n |