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Show Tn Want of Milk. A good story is told of two young Englishmen traveling in Europe. They had never thoroughly mastered any of tho lauguages commonly spoken on the continent and were particularly weak in their French, knowing that language well enough by sight, but not having a speaking acquaintance with it. Finding themselves in a small French town one evening, they were desirous of obtaining a good cup of coffee. Knowing Know-ing that cafe was coffee, and that lait was milk, they endeavored to call for a judicious mixture of the two, but their articulation was of so remarkable an order that they succeeded only in getting get-ting the coffee. Cafe au late they tried without success. Then dn lay-it was attempted nnavailingly. The suggestion that lait might be pronounced "light" was adopted equally in vai Finally in despair one of the struu-gling struu-gling youths exclaimed: "Well, it's mighty queer we don't know enough to get a little drop of milk." "Do yon want milk?" asked the waitress, wait-ress, opening her mouth for the first time. "Y-yes," stammered the travelers, overwhelmed with surprise. "Then why didn't you say so at first?" queried he girl as she flounced oft. And again the young men didn't know. London Tit-Bits. |