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Show Accounting for Absence of Noise. "You know I had something the matter mat-ter with my ears." said the nervous man. "and 1 feared I was going deaf; and this morning I gol the scare ol my life. I thought deafness had actually ac-tually settled on me. "Going down Madison avenue I met two carloads of children coming up in open cars filled with children and ! all waving their arms and making a j mighty stir. I couldn't hear a sound, i not a whisper, and then I knew I'd j gone deaf, sure enough; but when ; those carloads of shouting children had gone by then 1 could hear the rattle rat-tle of the wagons In the street and the clatter of the horses' hoofs and all that, and then it came to me, what was a fact, that thoe cheering children chil-dren were a bunch of jolly deaf and dumb children going on a picnic. And that was a great relief I felt sorry for the children, but a little more cheerful for myself." New York Sun |