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Show STORIES Of DH. HOLMES. A. TooiiB Woman Who Iidtt't Uko XU& Literary Taste. The story is recalled of a young Vir ginia country girl dining in Boston Bomo years agoj in tho days when Dr. Holmes went to dinners. Seated next to her was a homely, little old gentleman gentle-man whose namo she did not catch. He began to talk with her and asked hei-how hei-how she passed her time in the country. "Oh, weread, my father and II" she said. "And what do yon read?" asked the little man. "Well, the 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Break-fast Table for ono thing," she answered. answer-ed. 1 'I should think you would not caro to read that mere than once, " remarked remark-ed tho little old man with a sign of disappointment dis-appointment in his tones. "My father and I may not be jndges of literature," said Miss Virginia airily airi-ly and with a faint accent of scorn, '"but when wo gfcfc to tho end of the 'Autocrat' wo generally turn back t the beginning andxead it over again." Tho little old man smiled aTthis an was disposed to' be friendly, but Misj Virginia was eo displeased with his tone concerning tho "Autocrat" that she met him with ohilly indifference. As soon as the guebts went into ths drawing room her hostess whispered reproachfully to her: "You didn't. seem to find Dr. Holmes as interesting as I hoped. " "Dr. Hohnesl" shrieked Miss Virgin-a. Virgin-a. Thero were a tableau and an explanation. expla-nation. Another story of Holmes' wit is told, One day old Dr. Peabody was to meei him at a certain place. Tho venerable professor rode in a carriage. When he got there, he was met by Holmes, who had walked. Near by was a statue a? Enrydico. And Holmes said: "Ah, you rido, I seel" "Capital, capital!" cried Peabody. That night ho went back liomo and said to his wife: "Holmes got off a good joko today. " His wife asked him what it was. "Why, I was to meet him down at iho statue of Eurydice, and whou I ax. rived, ho said quite happily, 'Oh, you same in a carriagel' " And then the genial professor wonder l wb Wis wife dida't laugh. |