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Show CALLING DOWN THE BOASTER Good Little Story Told by William Dean Howells as a Rebuke to Spread-Eaglelsm. "It was William Donn Howells," paid n Chicago editor, "wlio first rebuked re-buked un Americans for our spread-cnglelsm, spread-cnglelsm, for our foolish boasting. I see that Mr. Howells has Just joined a men's society for the promotion of woman suffrage. Trust him to bo In tho forefront always. "I once heard Mr. Howells deliver a fourth of July oration in Maine. Tho orator preceding him had boasted a good deul. Mr. Howells showed that some of tho man's boasts wero even impious. "He said that these spread-eagle boasters deserved tho rebuke that tho little child administered to the cackling cack-ling hen that had just laid an egg. -The child, angered by tho hen's continuous con-tinuous cawk-cawk-cawk, cawk-cawk-cawk-cawk, shook his little finger at her and said: " 'You flnk you're Bmnrt. But Dod mnde dat egg. You touldn't help but lay it!'" |