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Show How to Know the Trees. Thero is an auctioneer whose "gift of gab" and native wit draw many purchasers to his sales, but sometimes some-times ho is tho subject "rather than tho cause of amusement. Tho mnn's nnmo is O. A. Kelloy. Not long ngo ho had to sell, among other things, a lot of pine logs, nnd tho day before the-nlo ho went ovor them nnd mnrked tho end of each log with IiIb initials. On tlio day of tho auction an Irishman Irish-man came along and Immcdlatoly noticed no-ticed tho logs with tho letters on them "O. A. K" he read, loud enough for all round to hear. "Hegorra, If 'tis not Just liko Kelley to decelvo us Into belavlug thlm pine logs aro oak!" Springfield Republican. |