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Show COULD READILY BELIEVE IT I Stage Driver Quite Willing to Accept "Keeper's" Explanation as He Understood It. The New Englander uses the word "natural" to describe one who wan unfurnished at birth with the usual and Indispensable quantity of brains. Prof. Hurt (',. Wilder, Hie distinguished distinguish-ed zoologist, tells an amusing story thai turns on a countryman's mistaking mistak-ing the unfamiliar word "naturalist" for the familiar word "natural." A few years ufter his arrival in America, Agassi? was one of a small party of Harvard professors who traversed the White Mountain region in a carriage driven by the countryman. country-man. Three of them were vivacious, restless, and on the lookout for specimens. speci-mens. They would call a halt, leap from the vehicle before it stopped, dash over the lields, and return with prizes In their boxes, in their hands and pockets, and even pinned upon their hats. The fourth, Prof. Feltou, the brother-in-law of Agasslz, sat quietly in his corner of the carriage reading a favorite Greek author. When the bewildered driver could stand it no longer be elicited from Felton information that led him to view the behavior of the others with compassionate toleration. At the close of the day he thus conveyed his interpretation in-terpretation to the innkeeper: "I drove the queerest lot you ever saw. They chattered like monkeys. They wouldn't keep still. They jumped jump-ed the fences, tore about the fields, and came back with their hats covered cover-ed with bugs. I asked their keeper what ailed them; he said they was naturals, and, judgin' from the way they acted, I should say they was." Youths' Companion. |