Show I SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACT Mr Johnson Un Unable to See Where In Any Way He Had Put His Foot In It It Is common to deplore the tho lack of ot humor in a person Yet the very want of It may save a certain amount of embarrassment as was the case on a certain occasion with President Johnson lie was one day says a writer in Harpers Harper's Magazine visiting visiting visiting visit ing my mother and a friend Mrs Knox a widow came in She had known Mr Johnson some somo years before before be be- fore foro when he was a member of ot the legislature but they had not met since then After mutual recognition Mr Johnson said How Is Mr Knox I have not seen him lately He has be ben n dead six years said Mrs 1 Knox I thought I hadn't seen him on the street said Mr Ir Johnson When Mrs Knox left my mother said Sail laughing That was a funny tunny mistake mistake mis mis- take of yours about Mr Knox What mistake did I make said Johnson I said I hadn't seen him on the street and I 1 |