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Show Why He Got Mad. "I admire a first-class Idiot as well as any one," remarked Hawkins on his first trip down town after a six weeks' Illness, "but some peoplo suit mo too well." "Why, what's tho trouble?" asked tho druggist, as he wrapped up a bottle bot-tle of tonic for tho invalid. "Well, you know I haven't been out of the house for nearly two months until threo days ago, when I managed to get down to tho front gate for a llttlo fresh air," said tho sick man as ho picked up the bottle, "and while I was standing there a neighbor camo nlong and exclaimed: "Why hello, old chap! Been away, haven't your Havo a good time? You are looking well!' Now, say, vasn't that enough to freckle tho disposition of a saint?" |