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Show MADE OLD GENTLEMAN WROTH Misunderstood Editor's Use of French Word, and Trouble Was With Difficulty Averted. It was in Indiana, not so very long ago, that the daughter of an old White River farmer -was reading the country newspaper to himself. She had got to the "Personals," and read this: "Mrs. Willie Morritts, - nee Black, has returned from a visit to her parents par-ents in Indianapolis." "I don't quite' understand that,'" said the old gentleman. "What don't you understand?" inquired in-quired the daughter. "That part about 'Mrs. Willie Morritts, Mor-ritts, nay Black.' What does 'nay Black' mean?" "Oh, that's French, and means she' was born Black." ther excitedly. "Yes; nee is French for born." "Well, it ain't so!' 'ejaculated the' old man, jumping up and shaking his fist. "I knowed her parents, andr they were as white as anybody that ever lived in Indianny, and I'll see-that see-that editor about it." But before he could get away the daughter explained ex-plained matters, and the old gentleman gentle-man cooled down. Exchange. |