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Show REMEMBERED ONLY TOO WELL. Farmer Used Well-Learned Phrase at Unfortunate Time. A certain wealthy farmer, who owned broad acres In an aristocratic section of the Bay State not so fur , distant from Boston, figured among his neighbors as Bomothldg of a diamond dia-mond In the rough. One of his strongest strong-est predilections was to exploit his rather stiff opinions of persons in terms that could not be mistaken. Ills two daughters had social aspirations, In tho interest of which they had to give frequent lectures on the social usages of the community. "When you And that you simply must let out your opinions of tho peo pie you meet," the doting parent was Instructed, "please always preface your remarks with the qualifying clause, 'present company excepted.'" It happened that the aspiring daughters daugh-ters were giving a dinner that same night at which they fondly hoped to give tho family a big social boost. Papa got a severe drilling as to his Uble manners, and sat at tho bead o' the family table with no little trepidation. trepida-tion. Under the Inspiring Influence of the wine, however, ho thawed out perceptibly, and soon was unburdening unburden-ing his soul of all the opinions that had accumulated In the courso of tho dinner. Incidentally he gave a vivid account of all that Impressed him the day beforo when he attended tho county fair, which was something of an event in the countryside. "YeB, slree," wont on the loquacious family head, "I seen things that was wuth goln' miles to see. And one thing I see was the best pen of hogs I ever seo present company excepted." ex-cepted." The speaker could not understand how it was tlTat none of tho guests enthused en-thused over tho live stock display-not display-not until his daughters got a chance to tell him. |