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Show lie Saved Something. yVe meet many peculiar characters in this world. 1 ran across a man once and he was a man of intelligence and a man of splendid family, wealthy and all that who lost his wife, and who, in telling me of his bereavemeut, said: "Well, I will save something out of the wreck. I can wear her stockings. See here." and he rolled up his pantaloons. Sure enough, there were women's stockings stock-ings of fine texture and reaching away above the knee. Tie proceeded to sxplaia that he !;:: 1 bought her several pairs at ?2 each just a week U'fore she died, but she had never h id any use of them, and he would have to wear them out, though he was sorry he had bought them. The id -a w.sso funny that it was all I could do to keep from laughing right out, as the saying is, but the innn was so very serious i i.i.t I repressed the inclination to do so. 1 told hi m it was s.-.d, but as long as he could s;tve something out of the wreck by wearing his dead wife's hosiery he waa uot in such a bad fix, but still he could not see the ludicrous side of his narrative. nar-rative. St. Iiouis Globe-Democrat. |