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Show (JOKE ON SCHOOL VISITOR Fortunately Hamilton Mabie Was Well Able to Appreciate Unconscious Humor of the Children. The late Hamilton W. Mabie, the well-known American essayist, was one of those genial men who enjoyed n joke on themselves. Illustrating this phase of Mr. Mabie's character, it is told that when he was a student Mr. Mabie made an address in which he told this story: He had visited a school in Philadelphia Philadel-phia in which there was a daily fire-drill. fire-drill. The teacher regularly asked tha students, "Children, what would you do If fire were to break out in this building?" The children all repeated in chorus, "We would rise iu out' places, step Into the aisle, and march quietly out of the building." On the morning when Mr. Mabie visited the school, while he was sitting quietly on the platform, the teacher -stepped before be-fore the pupils and said, "Children, what would you say if I were to tell you that Mr. Mabie is to speak to you this morning?" The children promptly prompt-ly replied in chorus, "We would rise In our places, step into the nisle, and inarch quietly out of the building." |