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Show LIVED UP TO HIS GROUCH , New Yorker Surely Went the Limit Be- j tween Saturday Afternoon and j Monday Morning. j WlJJIt had a crouch when ho left the otllee Saturday afternoon. He refused re-fused an Invitation to Join a friend who snld he knew a place whore the modern substitute for the wild thyme blows and started for his lonesome home. The grouch was still In evidence when he returned Monday morning. j "I got home Saturday," he said, "sat around a while, took n nap nnd decided de-cided I did not want to go out to dinner, din-ner, so I drank a pnrt of a bottle of stale milk and went to bed. I have spoken just two words since I went away Saturday. They are the name of a brand of cigar, and I used them tn buying a smoke." j "Didn't you speak to the waiter whore you got your meals?" nsked a friend. j "Not a word," snld the owner of the grouch. "I ate In a nlckle-ln-the-slot place." New York Sun. I i |