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Show Perpetual Anecdote. s When Oliver Goldsmith was a youth eome young people at a gathering were amusing themselves by trying to eee who could make the ugliest face. Many extravagant facial contortions were on display. At the conclusion, the master of -ceremonies stepped up to Goldsmith and said: "Sir, I think you have won the prize." "Oh," responded the poet, "I wasn't playing." This incident also happened to Fred-crick Fred-crick the Great, Dean Swift, William the Silent, Louis XIV, Mr. Pepys, Ivan the Terrible, Julius Caesar, Socrates and Attila the Hun. Kansas City Journal. |