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Show STORIES OF OR. HOLM EDS. A Tounic Woman Who Uidn't Like HI Literary Taste. Tbo story is recalled of a young Virginia Vir-ginia country girl dining in Boston tome years ago, in the days when Dr. Holmes went to dinners. Seated next to her was a homely, little old gentleman gentle-man whose name she did not catch. He began to talk with her and asked bet how she passed her time in the country. "Oh, we read, my father and I!" sh said. "And what do you read?" askod the little man. " "Well, the 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Break-fast Table' for one thing, "ahe answer ed. ' I should think you would not care to read that more than once," remark ed the little old man with a sign of dis appointment in his tones. "My father and I may not be judges of literature," said Miss Virginia airily airi-ly and with a faint accent of scorn, "but when we get to the end of the Autocrat' we generally turn back to the beginning and read it over again. " The little old man smiled at this and was disposed to bo friendly, but Miss Virginia was so displeased with his tone concerning the "Autocrat" that she met him with chilly indifference. As Boon as the guests went into the Crawing room her hostess whispered reproachfully to her: "You didn't -seem to find Dr. Holmes aa interesting as I hoped." "Dr. Holmes I" shrieked Miss Virgin-la. Virgin-la. There were a tableau and an explanation. expla-nation. Another story of Holmes' wit is told. One day old Dr. Peabody was to meet him at a certain place. The venerable professor rode in a carriage. When he got there, he was met by Holmes, who had walked Near by was a statue ol Eurydice. And Holmes said: ' "Ah, you ride, I seel" j "Capital, capital!" cried Peabody. That night he went back home and said to his wife: "Holmes got off a good joke today." His wife asked him what it was. "Why, I was to meet him down at the statue of Eurydice, and when I ar-rived, ar-rived, he said quite happily, 'Oh, you came in a carriage 1' " And then the genial professor wonder. d why his wife didn't laugh. |