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Show CURIOSITY THAT WAS MUTUAL. J But Perhaps Edward Everett Hale 1 Didn't Really Want to Know. f More than twenty-llvo years ago tho Ilev. Kdwnrd Kvcrett Hale had occa- 5 slon to visit, the town of Hlnghnm, J Mass., nnd, rising early the morning s after his arrival there, he started out for a walk. There had arrived during tho night before n circus company, i and all of tho residents seemed nnx-itr 1 lous to get a first glimpse of any ono 1 who had any connection with tho I show. I Whilo Mr Halo was enjoying his I lonoly wnlk ho noticed a rathor elder- "Be Yu One of the Circus People?" jg ly woman walking toward him, Slut K was voiry straight and thin, and von If a checked glnghnm sunbonnet, and as I sho reproached him, looking anxious- H ly from his head to his feet and then ff back to his head, sho nskod In n nerv- W ous half-whisper: "Say, bo you nut f of tho circus peoplo?" Mr. Halo, without hesitating a second, sec-ond, answered: 'No; ho you?" |