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Show EVIDENTLY WAS NOT CURIOUS. Attendant at Cathedral Had More Than Usual English Stolidity. "While going through an English cathedral," said a returned visitor the other day, "wo noticed that all the tombs except one had Inscriptions explaining ex-plaining them. Being curious to know whoso tomb it was that did not bear an inscription I walked down to an Iron railing, the gate of which was in charge of an old man. We had en tered this gate to view tho tombs paying tho customary sixpence admls sion. Pointing to tho tomb, which was. less than seventy-flvo feet from the gate at which the old man was stationed, sta-tioned, I said to him: 'Beg pardon but whoso tomb is that one there? It has no card on it,' and I'm curious tr know its history.' "Looking up toward where I wat pointing and peering through the rather dim atmosphere of tho church the old man in tho most pathetic tone Imaginable replied: 'I don't know-sir; know-sir; I've never been up that far.' "Supposing that ho was a newcomer new-comer I said: 'How long have you been here?' Slowly but proudly came the reply: "Twenty-seven years." |