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Show SWAN WAS SOMEWHAT TOUGH. Bird With Record of 280 Years Re-slsts Re-slsts Efforts to Boll It. Tho swnn Is snld to be excellent ent-Ing ent-Ing when joung, but ns It Is ono ot the longcM lived nf nil creatures It Is well to Iciiin If possible how old )our bird Is bcfoio jou cook It, Bajs the Youth's Com pnnlon A gentlemnn In Lincolnshire, England sent a dead swan to tho Athemeum club, addressed to the scrretar). A spe. clal dinner wns to occur that week nnd the committee without question turned tho b'rd over to tho took. At the dinner the swiln, resting on a groat silver dish, wns a delight to the eye, but when It dime to cnrvlng and cntlng tho bird no krlfe seemed shnip enough to cut It, nnd, of course eutlntf It was out of the question A row dnjs later the donor met the secietnr) nnd sold "1 hope jou got mj swan all right " 'That wns it nice Joko jou plajod on us" leluroed the secretnr) Joke' Whit do )ou mem?" Whi, we had the thing boiled for thirteen hours and even then we might ns well have tried to cut through the rock of Gibraltar ' You don l mean to e,ij jou had tho swan ccrfiked' ' ' W'b) of course" 'Man nllvc1 I sent It to be stuffed nnd pieeerved ns n curios' In the club That swnn has been In i family for ISO )o i It was one nf the Identical birds fed b) the chlldien of Chatles I )ouvo seen tho picture of It, M) uncos, tor held tho post of 'mister of tho swan und keeper of the Kings t) nets' Well I have no eloubt It wus a bit tonsil ' |