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Show - HIS WELL-CHOSEN RESPONSE Old Frenchman's Words, in Ackno. edging Gift, Were Certainly Short and to the Point. In a certain country town th're lived an old Frenchman named L? tilanc One night some of his friends gave him a surprise party and pre. sented him with a watch chain. That week the local paper printed an account ac-count of the affair, saying that in acknowledgment ac-knowledgment of the gift Mr. Le B'b responded in "a few well-chosen words." Curious to know what the old Frenchman said, someone asked tie reporter who -vas present what these "well chosen words" were. "Well, I'll tell you," he answered "When Charlie finished his presenu-tion presenu-tion speech and held out the ohain, the old man who had been eying it greedily all the while sudderli snatched it from his hand and ej claimed: 'Py chee, dat was a iA one!'" Youth's Companion. |