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Show When the Umbrella Took Fire. Thomas Simpson, the Detroit malleable malle-able iron man, is a grave and dignified person, but once he made a joke. He was sitting with a party of friends, one of whom was smoking an enormous cigar. The friend had difficulty diffi-culty in keeping the cigar going, and by his repeated lightings had frazzled the end of it until it was about twice its original size. But he kept bravely at it. Suddenly Simpson began to laugh. "What are you laughing at, Tom?" asked another member of the party. "I was wondering what Jim would do when that umbrella he is smoking begins to blaze," he said. Saturday Evening Post. |