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Show STORIES OF UR. hTQLMES.' A Young Woman Who Didn't Like Ills Literary Taste. Tho story is recalled of a young Virginia Vir-ginia country girl dining in Boston some years ago, in the days when Dr. Holmes went to dinners. Seated next to her was a homely, little old gentle man whose name she did not catch. He began to talk with her and asked her how sho passed her time in the country. "Oh, we read, my father and II" she said. "And what do you read?"'asked the little man. "Well, the 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Break-fast Table' for one thing, " she answer-! ed. 'I should think you would not care to read that more than once," remarked remark-ed the little old man with a sign of disappointment dis-appointment in his tones. "My father and I may not be judges of literature, " said Miss Virrinia 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 be friendly, but Miss Virginia was so displeased with his tone concerning tho "Autoorat" that she met him with chilly indifference. As soon as the guests went into the drawing room her hostess whispered reproachfully to her: "You didn't seem to find Dr. Holmes as interesting as I hoped. " "Dr. Holmes 1" shrieked Misa Virgin ia. There were a tableau and an explanation. expla-nation. Another story of Holmes' wit is told. One day old Dt. 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 of Eurydice. And Holmes said: "Ah, you ride, I seel" "Capital, capital 1" 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 Jgxa. statue." of Iyrx-llce,' and when I arrived, ar-rived, he said quite happily, 'Oh, you came in a carriage 1' " And then the genial professor wonder ed why his wife didn't laugh. |
