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Show The story is told of a veteran of the C'vil war who returned to the home of his boyhood to attend at-tend a banquet given by the old boys, tflio diners were all men he had known as youngsters. Ho expected them to talk over old times. Instead one talked incessantly about his bad liver; another an-other discoursed on his weak heart; a third had a lot to say about his kidney trouble, and so it went on. When the veteran returned to his home he was asked how he enjoyed the banquet. "Banquet!" "Ban-quet!" he snorted. "Bah! It wasn't a banquet. It was an organ recital." San Francisco Argonaut. |