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Show NB t?ATTftQ HIS OWN CucriH&S. S5 Bright Cook Succeeded In Getting th Better of Him. A citizen of Kiev, Russia, found fault with the dinner prepared by hia new cook and rashly embodied his criticism crit-icism in cutting sarcasms. The young woman heard him in silence. In the evening he knooked up against a man in a deserted little street, and when he Vsntured to remonstrate he was vigor 0Pdy assaulted. Unable to get the better bet-ter of hia adversary, he determined t do what he could at least to identify him later on, and with this object in view tore his assailant's fashionable clothes into shreda. On his return fe?o, some few hours later, he found the cook etanding at the door, ready to shake the dust of his house off her feet The gentleman, gen-tleman, whose wounds and bruises left bim in no very amiable mood, simply said: "J?y be with you! Sometime will pass feiore you get another place. And as io character well, trust me to giv fou one that will stick." On the following morning he discovered discov-ered that his best clothes in the wardrobe ward-robe were w tatters and his glossy silk hat an unsightly wreck. Hastily summoning sum-moning the othwr servants to the room, he angrily asked them what they knew about the matter, whereupon the nurse replied that the cook, in one of her freaks of ihin, had donned her master's garments and gone out to walk in them the evening before, sticking on an artificial arti-ficial mustacho to help to keep up th illusion. Then it dawned upon wretched man that his assailant d sGa day before was the touchy, turbulent cook. Less than a fortnight later he received re-ceived a letter through the city post in' forming Lisa, ia somewhat ungrammat-ical ungrammat-ical but Esaiteiakable language, "You Sled ttb??J the place, respected sir, when irea said I could not get another if I left yours. I've been in five different places since then, and I'll be goicg to the sixth next Monday. Trusting your bones isn't aching, I remain Praskovia. l-' l-' San Francisco Argonaut |