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Show A story is told of an old Puritan and his encounter en-counter with Judge Jefferies in the seventeenth century. Jefferies, hearing the case against the Puritan, was trying to make fun of the old man. as was his habit. "I honor you, sir," said the judge, sneerlngly, "from your head to your feet." t "And I honor you, sir," said the old Puritan, "from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet. "I honor you," went on the judge, "from Land's End to John O'Groats's." "And I honor you from the Equator to the Antipodes." "I honor you," said the judge irascibly, "to the gates of Hell." The Puritan didn't reply at once. Then he said, ' Sir, there is a passage in Holy Writ that says, 'Answer a fool according to his folly,' I have done so. But there is another passage that says, 'Answer not a fool according to his folly.' Sir, I decline to follow you to Hell!" San Francisco Argonaut. , |