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Show ME BATTERL-O MIS OWN CLOTHES. 33 Bright Cook Succeeded In Getting the Better of Him. A citizen of Kiev, fiussia, found fault with the dinner prepared by his new cook and rashly embodied. his criticism crit-icism in cutting sarcasms. The young woman heard bim in silence. In the evening he knocked up against a man iu a deserted little street, and when he Ventured to remonstrato he was vigor Ofdy assauUed. Unable to get the bet' ter of his adversary, he determined t-do t-do what he could at least to identify him later e.u, and with this, object in view tors his assailant's fashionable clothes into shreds. On his return tca, somo few .hours later, he found the cock standing at tho door, ready to shake ths dust of his house off her feet. The gentleman, gen-tleman, whose wounds and bruises left aim in no very amiable laood, simply said: "Jcy be with you! Sometime will pass sore you get another place. And PC id character Well, trust me to giv fou one that will tick. " On the following morning he discovered discov-ered that his best clothes in tho wardrobe ward-robe were ?i tatters and his glossy silk hat an unsightly wreck. Hastily summoning sum-moning the othvr servants to the room, ho angrily asked them what they knew about tho matter, whereupon the nurso replied that tho cook, in one of her freaks of un, had donned her master's garments imd gone out to walk in them the evening before, sticking on an artificial arti-ficial mustacho to help to keep up cliS illusion. Then it dawned upon fen wretched man that his assailant ? (& day before was the touchy, turbulent cook. Less than a fortnight later he ?3 ceived a letter through the city post informing in-forming Lisa, in somewhat ungrammat-icnl ungrammat-icnl but E52sfefakable language, "You lied abl ' tho place, respected sir, when ires paid I could not get another if I left vours. I've been in five different places sinco then, and I'll be goicg to tho slK.th next Monday. Trusting your bones isn't aching, I remain Praskovia. -San Francisco Argonaut. |