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Show Wnilng to tm-n. A Buffalo lady, showing a friend from Bow-Jon Bow-Jon her fine house and grounds, explained that a pipe which ran across the lawn was intended in-tended to supply a fountain, "but," she added, "it doesn't work now; it'a bust." Madam's daughter, muoh mortified, took the first opportunity to whisper in her mother's ear; "Ma, 'ou shouldn't say Ijust, say 'burst.' " Ma, not too old to learn, mado grateful mental note, and later on was quick to seize an opportunity to regain the ground she had presumably lost, A chief ornament of madam's drawing room was a marble presentment pre-sentment of ber departed husband. To thii she called the puest's attention. "It is a burst of ray dead husband," elrt raid, with infinite complacency. , The guest has gone back to Boston. Buffalo Buf-falo Express, |