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Show Ono on Abe. Stories of Abe Lincoln always pass as coin everywhere, and it Li not too late for one told by his son to a friend in Washington. "My fpther," said Robert Lincoln, "iiiied to tiro 11 about Wnshig-toa Wnshig-toa without any escort or show of di- ' Unction, and he sometimes btrayed into curious company. One day, as a lad, 1 accompanied him down a back street, j where we encountered a regiment of soldiers sol-diers marching past. My father was cu- ' rious to learn what particular body of troops this was, and as soon as he camo ' within hailing distance he inquired without with-out addressing anybody in particular, ' 'Well, what's thisr Quick as the word came a reply from somewhere in tho detachment, 'Why, it's a regiment of Eoldiers, you old fool, you!' " Buffalo Express. i |