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Show NEAREST. A Southerner in one of the cantonments canton-ments below the Mason and Dixon line, when called up for examination, was asked : - - "What is your nearest living rela- tlve?" , "j "What you mean, 'relative,' mister?" returned the recruit. "Oh, I mean your nearest living kinsfolk." kins-folk." "Wal, that's my aunt you're talking 'bout." Several other questions were answered an-swered satisfactorily, when there , came : "In case of death or accident, who snail be notified?" "My mother," immediately came from the selectman. "But you told me just a few minutes min-utes ago that your aunt was the nearest near-est living .relative that you have," objected ob-jected the officer. "You asked me who my nearest living liv-ing kin was, didn't you? Wal, that's Aunt Liz she lives jest two miles . from where I been livin' ; mother lives five." |