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Show SEEN AND HEARD ON MAIN STREET And the woman who knows how to manage a husband, never had one. Local Fisherman: "Ah, my boy, you must have used much patience, pa-tience, much equanamity, to capture cap-ture such a fine specimen of fish." Boy: "No, sir, I used worms." We've often wondered how the dickens a butcher always picks up a chunk of meat that is exactly the price asked for. When a man gets to old to set a bad example, he begins to give good advice. A preacher at the close of a sermon said: "Let all in the house who are paying their debts stand up." Instantly every man and woman wo-man with one exception rose to their feet. The preacher seated them, and said, "Now, every man not paying Iiis debts stand up." The exception excep-tion noted, a care-worn, hungry-Jooking hungry-Jooking individual, clothed in last summer's suit, islowly rose. "How is it, my friend," asked the minister, "that you ai-e the only man who doesn't meet lus obligations?" "I run a newspaper," he meekly meek-ly answered, "and the brethern who stood up are my subscribers, and " "Let us pray," exclaimed the minister. |