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Show I His Hobby. A gentloman formerly attached to tho American embassy at London tolls how an old country Bexton In a certain English town, in showing visitors round the church yard, used to stop at ono tomb nnd say: "This 'ere is tho tomb of 'Enry 'Ooper, an' 'is eleven wives. "Eleven!" excallmed u tourist, on ono occasion. "Dear mo! That's rather a lot, isn't it?" Whereupon tho soxton, looking gravely at his questioner, replied: "Well, mum; yet see, it war an 'obby of 'is'n." Harper's Magazine. |