Show yra cje A maff speaking of absent minded people said the man from the country you ought to live next door to my neighbor he is a clergyman but I 1 wonder he remembered the hour set for his or di nation and got there in time or of his marriage or of anything ably he paid somebody to remind him his wife starts him off for church in time for the sermon or be would never get there till the congregation was ready to break up he forgets to come to his meals on time and you know a man is pretty forgetful when it comes down to that at table he often dips his fork into his coffee and begins to write on the tablecloth thinking he Is at his desk and there are traditions to the effect that he once stood on the street corner and ab tore up a 10 bill last week he reached the limit with his wife and daughters he was i invited to dinner they got home about 10 clock and he stopped on the veranda rummaged through every pocket and discovered to his dismay and theirs that he had forgotten his I 1 key that Is to say that he had left it in the house and locked it in the door being one of those self fastening ones we live in twin houses side by side exactly alii e to the door jambs so he called up to my window and begged me to contrive some way to get into his house and admit him it was raining hard but I 1 poked my head out the window of my bed room and ve held a conference as to ways and means the conference re suited in my climbing around on the cornice of the second story in the pouring rain from my bathroom win dow to his opening the window and climbing in the rain came down in sheets while I 1 was doing this I 1 was in my pajamas when I 1 got in his bathroom I 1 was wet to the kin I 1 went down stairs to the front door to let the ab sent minded individual and his family into their house when I 1 got there I 1 was the madest individual you ever saw the door was unlocked the parson try it before rummage ing for his key |