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Show I Each In His Little Cot. i The scene was the clubroom ; the hour advanced. Serious, gloomy, S cheerful, elated were the earnest 1 faces of the talkers by turn, as the ' arguments for and against came thick - and fast. I And the subject under debate "Do ! Fish Sleep?" That was all ; but It ' was sufficient to keep them at it till ' a late hour of the night, while pntient-! pntient-! ly waited their respective wives at ; home. So fiercely waged the controversy ' that it burnt itself away. There enme a lull; most of the debaters were play-; play-; ed right out. It was then that the "cheerful Idot," who had played the listener's role, chipped in. Rising from his roomy arm-chair, where he had lain unobserved, unob-served, he stretched, yawned, then j sp.ike: i "Gentlemen, the hour Is late; I, for ! one. must hie me to my cot. Do fish . sloop? I do not know. But, If they I dou't why river-beds?" |