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Show HE BATTERED HIS OWN CLOTHES. 35$S Bright Cook Succeeded In Getting the Better of Hira, A citizen of Kiev, Russia, found fault with the dinner prepared by his new cook and rashly embodied hin criticism crit-icism in outting sarcasms. The young woman heard him in silence. In the evening he knocked up against a Djan la a deserted little street, and whe ho Ventured to remonstrate he was vigor ocsly assaulted. Unable to get the better bet-ter of his adversary, he determined t do what he could at least to identify him later on, and with this object in view tors his assailant's fashionable clothes into shreds. On his return hase, some few hours later, he found the cooic standing at the door, ready to shake the dust of his house off her feet The gentleman, gen-tleman, whose wounds and braises left aim in no very amiable mood, simply said: "Jgy be with you! Sometime will pass fcsore you get another place. And m id character well, trust me to giv on one that will stick. " On the fellowinr morning he discovered discov-ered that his best- clothes in the wardrobe ward-robe were . tatters und his glossy silk hat an unsightly wreck. Hastily summoning sum-moning the othw servants to the room. he angrily asked them what they knew about the matter, whereupon the nurse I replied that the cook, in one of her freaks of 'Am, had donned her master's garments and gone out to walk in them the evening before, sticking on an artificial arti-ficial mustache to help to keep up ths illusion. Then it dawned upoa wretched man that his assailant eS 3 day before was the touchy, turbulent cook. Less than a fortnight later he r ceived a letter ibsoagh the city poet informing in-forming Lira, ia somewhat ungrammat-ical ungrammat-ical but tasoSstakable language, 'Ton lied the place, respected sir, when KS said I could not get another if I left yours. I've been in five different places since then, and I'll be gohag to the sisih next Monday. Trusting your bones isn't aching, I remain Praskovia. San Francisco Argonaut |
