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Show MENEEDED80MSOF.it. : William Knox, architect, revels in a Scotch story he picked np this trimmer about a temperance lecturer who used for illustration a glass of water, a glass of whisky and a box of live worms. He would drop a worm into the water and show how it wriggled. wrig-gled. Then, dropping it into , the whiaky, he would exclaim ; "There I One convulsive shudder and it ia all over." "Hold on there, mister. Are you sure 'tis the liquor killed the puir worm ?' a voice in the audience I aeked. "Quite sure, my friend," replied the lecturer. "No doubt whatever." "A-weel, then, jnit peas over the whkky ) I'm bothered wf worms." Oil City Blizzard. |