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Show A CATCHY THING I I run acrosst a puzzlo in tho. paper,t 'other day, and though I I nover try 'em I read 'em -anyway..... Thoy get 'em up so I artfully, to ketch a feller's oyo, with a premium, fer tho ans. I if you want to mako a try They put a string of letter with a third of 'em loft out, which all would spell Statesman VM that wo all had heard about By fillin' in tho vacancies I which thoy had hid away, I could earn a hundred dollars, I which they'd bo glad to pay. I I found it mighty easy to comploto tho statesman's namo, I in fact, it was so easy I considered it a shamo to tako them I fellers' monoy in on underhanded way but I sent 'em in the I r.nswor, to soo what thoy would say Well, thoy fired mo I back a circular, which said I guessed it right, but a hundred I other fellers had bent mo out of siyht Thoy said scch won- I (Irons talent ort to nialco a feller rich, an' offered mo the I agency of salvo to cure the itch. I |
