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Show II NOT CONCERNED. I "Sir," nskca tho pale-faced, slde- I whiskered man of tho heavy-set, chub- I by-cheeked man who wns smoking a I long, black cigar and reading a sport- I fas paper, "would ysu permit your boy 1 no smoke cigarettes when ho grows I up?" I "That's a question you'll have to do- I clde for yourself," ropltcd tho heavy. I set man. "I don't know how you would I look at It, you sec. It's you nnd your boy for that." "1 did not refer to myself In tho question, sir. What I meant to in-qulro in-qulro was whether you Intended to permit your own boy to smoke." "I'vo never given It a mlnuto's thought." "What! never pondered upon tho offoot "upon tho constitution, to say nothing of tho morals, of your Rn to allow him to smoko tho deadly things?" "Never a thought no, Blr." "And will you allow him to drink?" "I havo nover thought about It." "Oh, can such things bo can such things bo? Allowing your child to grow up In tho midst of temptntlon and never speaking n fatherly word to" "Look here, colonel I You mean well, I guess, but maybo you'd better lot mo tell you that I'm a bachelor of 30 years standing slnco tho last girl throw mo over, and I haven't any" "I'no rann of tM0 l'n' mco nn(l B'c" 'twhlskerB was making a dissolving low of himself. Judge. |