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Show u Strange Maneuver Accounted For. Henry Stern, real estate broker, was walking along Montgomery street with a friend. After proceeding about twenty paces the friend fell back a step and closed In on Stern's right. They proceeded twenty feet, when Stern backed up, sidestepped and regained re-gained his former position. "Excuse me," said the friend, thirty feet further nl6ng the street, as he retreated a step and again slipped around to the right sido of the real estate agent. They continued alnug Montgomery street seventeen paces when Stern, with an "I bog your pardon," executed exe-cuted the same maneuver and regained re-gained the right hand position. "Say, what's tho natter?" demanded tho friend. "Can't hear with my left ear," explained ex-plained Stern. "Same here," said the friend. "Shake." San Francisco Chronicle. |