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Show Twins are always embarrassing from the first; and Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" shows how very many awkward and amusing complications can be got out of two pairs of twins. Indeed, considering how much healthy fun is to be had with them, it is a wonder that families consent to do without them, at least, to the extent that they do. At Alleghany the other day "one of a kind" went to a church fair and it didn't cost him a cent. He told them he was "dead broke," but that he would come in the evening with plenty of money. He persuaded his brother to attend in the evening, and when that duplicate retired from the scene of the conflict, his pocket-book, like the Yankee's who visited New York, "looked as if an elephant had stamped on to it." A Hartford man recently died, and his twin brother, a stranger, nearly broke up the funeral services by appearing and creating the impression that he was the resurrected gentleman in whose memory the ceremony was held. -- Detroit Press. |