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Show Disproved the Charge. It is a sharp emergency that can catch Pat, even when he Is ignorant and ragged. An Irishman whose garments gar-ments were in tatters was brought before be-fore a magistrate on the charge that he was a vagqant, with no visible means of support. Pat drew frcm the pocket of his torn ccat a loaf of bread, the half of a dry codfish and several cold potatoes. These he spread upon the stand before him and coolly asked: "What do you think of thim, yer honor? Shure, an' Isn't thim visible manes of support?" |