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Show Very Ancient Jokes. When Themistocles was trying to get money out of the Andrians for the Greece defense fund and told them that the Athenians would come with two great gods, persuasion and necessity, the Andrians replied that the Athenians were well off with two such serviceable gods, but they had two gods who always al-ways dwelt in their country poverty and impossibility. Cyrus' bitter jest about the fishes to the wretched Ionians, who had declined his overtures, and then after the taking of Sardis wanted to come to terms, has too much cruelty to be humorous. "Say," said the insulting victor, "that a piper, seeing fishes in the sea, were to pipe to them, thinking they will come out to the land, and when he was dis-.j.miyUofed dis-.j.miyUofed cf ujg nope took a net and : inclosed a great maititT.de of the fishes ;Hnd drew them to land, and eeelng tbem flopping about said to the fishes, 'Cease dancing to me, since you would not Qtne oat and dance when I played.' " Westminster Review. |