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Show The Force of Habit. One of the enmpors had done something some-thing peculiarly Idiotic, and the dean said: "Dick reminds mo of Thomas' colt." "What about Thomas colt?" asked Dick, cheerfully. "Why," tho dean responded, readily "whero I lived In Maine when I was a boy an old man named Thomnf raised horses. Ho onco put out tr pasture a colt, which had been fed from Its birth in a box stnll and wa tered at tho trough In tho yard. "Tho pasture lay across a smnll river, and In the middle of tho day the colt swam tho stream to go up to the barn-yard far a drink of water." Youth's Companion. |