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Show Rudo Girl; One of the most amusing tt recent "reminiscence" books is "The Spire of Life' by "Thormanby." Hie ha soma capital legal stories to Cell He knew a learned counsel owe who always boasted that he- looki twenty years younger than he was, but be bad an awful blow one day when he was cross-e-xamlning a very self-possessed young lady. He wanted her to tell him th age of somebody she knew, or at least to make a guess at it, but ba couldn't get a satisfactory anawei from her. "Come, you can generally form an Idea of age from people's looks,'' Be said, coaxlngly. "Now, bow old would you say I am?" To which the lady replied: "You might be sixty by your looks; but, Judging by the questions you aak, should say about sixteen!" |