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Show Real Experience. "Yes," said a traveling man, "I was once out of sight of lnud on the Atlantic At-lantic ocean twenty-one days." Another man spoke up : "On the Pacific ocean one time I didn't see laud for twenty-nine days." A bald man knocked the ashes from his cigar and contributed his bit : "I started to cross the Kaw river at Topeka in a skiff once," be said, "and was out of sight of land before I reached the other side." "What 1" demanded the man who had spun the first yarn. "The Kaw is not more than three hundred feet wide at Topeka." "Quite true," said the b.ild man quietly. qui-etly. "The skiff turned over and I sank twice." |