Show ODD WAGER IS EASILY WON flesh ind and blood leg no match maich in endurance with cork one it was in the commercial room and the conversation had turned on the topic of tho the powers of endurance shown by men ot of tho the past and present during a lull in the conversation a young commercial man said any man it be has the will power can endure pain or fatigue I 1 know I 1 can silence for a moment and an old man of 0 the road replied ill hot bet you a dinner you cant bold your foot bots boots on in a bucket of 0 hot water as long as I 1 can the bet was taken and two buckets of hot water were brought in and a kettle of boiling water to raise the temperature to the point of 0 endurance in went a foot of each bettor the young mans face began to pale but the other called lor for more boiling water what the deuce Is 19 your leg made of sir yelled the former suddenly taking his foot from the bucket cork air cork was the cool an ewer and them the other gentleman tell felt that he be had indeed lost chicago chronicle |