| Show se peter dr britton D evans the brilliant alienist said at a recent dinner in isea york then there is the cunning lunatic ot whom there used to exist a good example at bridgetown there was a half witted youth in bridgetown to whom the neighboring farmers liked to offer a penny and a nickel gathered about him in a circle on market day the farmers cne after an other would say now ye have peter here s a cent here s a nickel tal e yer choice and foolish peter invariably would choose the cent rather than the nickel and the farmers before such tole foolishness would roar with laugh ter double in two and slap their legs noisily with their brown hands peter I 1 said one day to the luna tic why Is it that you always take the cent instead of the peter grinned a very cunning grin suppose I 1 took the nickel said he would I 1 ever get a chance take another one washington post |
