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Show "A Miss la Good as a Mile." We have all used tho Baying, "A tnlss Is as good as a mllo;" yet It la doubtful It any know tho origin of this proverb. Before tho days of tho groat Charle-mngno, Charle-mngno, when King Popln ruled the Franklsh empire, there dwelt two friends, Amis and Amllo. According to the story ot Turplnj these men woro so strongly attached to cacti othor that Amllo risked his life to savo tho life and fortune of Amis, and later when Amllo was suffering from leprosy lep-rosy Amis sacrificed his own children In ordor that hla friend might bo bathod In their blood and cured. Thus came that peculiarly truo proverb which will no doubt romaln vltn us until tho end of time. Tho Bunday Magazlno. |