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Show The Cockney's Tact. AVatkins, a cockney private, was lecturing lec-turing his mates one day on the need . of employing tact in their dealings with the French people. "Now, I got in a bit of a fix the other day," said Watkins. "I -was billeted with a French family, and after I'd been shown to my room I started out for a walk. Well, I 'appened to open the wrong door. It was a bathroom and there was a lady in the tub. She let out a scream, and it might 'ave been a deucedly embarrassing situation, but my tact saved the day." "Well, wot did ya do?" "I jes' backed out an' said: 'Far-dong, 'Far-dong, monsieur.' " New York Tribune. |