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Show ONE FROM "OVER THERE" An Englishman paying his first visit to the U. S. A. becomes inveigled into a poker game. Wins a large pot. Another An-other player says: "You lucky dog!" Englishman wants to fight immediately. imme-diately. "He called me a dog!" Friends finally succeeded in explaining explain-ing t6 him that as used this was a compliment. Two days later Englishman shows up with a black eye, split ear and other evidences of trouble. Upon be- Mf ing asked where he was when the cyclone struck, he said: "Oh, deah, deah; I shall never comprehend com-prehend your American talk. You remember re-member the other evening, during that card game you called me 'A Lucky Dog' and stated that it was a complimentary compli-mentary term of endearment. Well, last evening I played the beastly game again at a friend's house. There were several ladies in the game, and finally one of them made a most phenomenal phe-nomenal draw. And I said to her, tu 'You lucky little pup!' and now look" at me!" |