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Show Provision for Reduction. National characteristics are suggested suggest-ed by this story, 'which, according ta Judge, was once told by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman: A certain gentleman, gen-tleman, it seems, complained to three friends an Englishman, a Scotchman and an Irishman that his servant broke a great deal of china. The matter-of-fact Englishman gave the short bit of practical advice, "Dismiss "Dis-miss him." "Take it out of his wages," spoka the thrifty Scot. Objection to that course was made on the ground that the wages were less than the amount of the damages. The Irishman at once came to the rescue res-cue with: "Then raise his wages." |