Show 0 CARRYING IT TOO FAR Irishman Had Traveled Too Long a Distance for a Joke The late George T. T Cline the eccentric eccentric eccentric Chicago millionaire had a passion passion pas pas- sion slon for violins and Irishmen Though on himself he would never spend more than fifteen or twenty cents a aday aday aday day he would readily pay 2000 or for a violin and he thought l nothing of buying Irishmen ous dinners with champagne la is t order cIder to to hear them th m talk In their their- t musical brogue An Irishman once played Colonel Cline false He stole a pair of boots from him Discovering his theft the millionaire pursued the Irishman overtaking him as he was about to enter a pawnshop with the boots la is his hand Those ar are my boots you have hara stolen them said Colonel Cline Sure it was' was only a joke said the tha Irishman But the Inexorable inexorable inexorable- millionaire hauled hauled hauled haul haul- ed the thief before a magistrate and here again the man repeated It was only a j joke ke your ho honor or Only a joke hey said the magis magis- Well Mr Cline how faraway far faraway faraway away from your house had he c circled carried the boots when you overtook him Over a m mile e sir replied the mil mU- Held for court court said the the magistrate magis This is a a. case of carrying the Joke too far a |