Show ASA PARKER ATTY AT LAW CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE B there T here was a great rush at willards on inauguration gu ration day indeed there was a perfect jam everywhere and our friend parker found some difficulty in getting down to the dinner table along i with some of of his townsmen she he dinner was a fine one the champagne delicious and after an hours sitting the new englanders left the table in the merriest mood imaginable now fellows said parker as they emerged from the dining room every man look out for his hat ave got a mark on mine that nobody can mistake but there was a sort of mistake somewhere 3 notwithstanding it was sometime some time before mr P found his hat at all and even then he labored under the i impression mp that it had grown a trifle older since he went to dinner but the placard dacard was in the crowne crown all right asa parker ter attorney at law concord new hampshire shire 11 stared him in the face as he looked in the ille inside all right fellows said parker raising the tile ile to his bis gourd nothing like making 0 sure if things when you are going 11 into a crowd my tats ats safe anyhow 31 but he only put the hat n the top of his head for it was entirely too mall to go on the matter parker inquired one f the party as the attorney attempted to pull 6 the hat oh nothing 1 responded parker again j oking into the hat bat 11 nothing its all right I 1 course asa parker attorney at lancon I 1 jird new hampshire certainly I 1 knew it I 1 last be my hat arid and again he attempted to the hat on I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t the party pany around could illy suppress laughter athe t the comical motions of the embarrassed lawer P I 1 r but he did not appear to notice it and in endeavored to make the hat fit some pw w in a state of most absolute bewilderment B at length turned to one of the party and tes es enting the hat desired him to tell what name as s in it the man read asa chasa parker actor by y at law concord new hampshire i all cAll right of course exclaimed parker gain attempting to pull on the haf ha conly tonly to his till ill greater bewilderment will you have the kindness to tell me who I 1 in still more perplexed certainly said the man addressed you re asa parker attorney at law Concord New lampshire amp shire 1 of course said parker darn it I 1 know 1 I 1 5 and he made one more trial at the hat it would be very difficult to say whether mr larker knew himself from a hole in the ground bout out this juncture he looked again into the at r tand and read eau the inscription and then at his fiends i e d 8 w who h 0 still preserved sC straight raight faces and pally I 1 jy caved a ed i gentle gentlemen m en said P with intense gravity if I 1 am asa parker attorney at law conord new hampshire and if this hat bat belongs to isa sa parker attorney at law concord new hampshire tamp shire all I 1 have to say is that my head aas las swelled outrageously since I 1 went to diner the col tell us who changed mr par ors erg card into soine somebody body eases hat N york cirit of the times |