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Show AND SHE COULDN'T DENY IT One Time That Mr. Hogg Scored on the Partner of His Joys and Sorrows, Former Senator John W. Weeks was lately recalling some of the happy days of the long ago in Washington. In those days, he said, there were such things as bars, and his friend Hirbutus Hogg, spent a great deal of his time on lhe fringe of the oases. One night after an unusually long sojourn near his favorite bar, Mr. Hogg navigated painfully home and at last reached his bedroom. Mrs. Hogg was waiting for him. "Hirbutus," she said, after a swift appraisal of his condition, "I am ashamed of you utterly ashamed. You are a Hogg by name, and a hog hy nature." ies, m'dear," replied the prodigal, meekly, "but even at that I have the advantage over you. You are a Hogg by name, but you became a Hogg by-choice." by-choice." Exchange. |