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Show I Bill I IMl II II I 111 RATHER UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE. From His Actions, He Must Have Been ,;Under the Weather." Richard Harding Davis, during his Atlantic City honeymoon, said at a fish luncheon: "I confess that I am not pleased with the modern trend of fiction. The newest new-est fiction Is nasty. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It is full of double eutemlre like the parlor maid's remark. "A gentleman came down to breakfast break-fast one morning with bloodshot ees. He drank eight glasses of ice water-hurriedly water-hurriedly then he muttered, hoarsely, hoarse-ly, to the pretty parlor maid: " 'Tell me, Adele, did I reach home last night very much under the weather?' " 'Indeed you did, sir," the maid re-i re-i plied. 'Why, sir, you kissed the missis! ' " |