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Show MARK'S BRILLIANT PARAGRAPH. (Xew York Sun.) Mark Twain, at a publishers" dinner in in Virginia City. "ye were trying a horse thief ono day, he said, "and a' of a sudden ono big burly scoundrel polled off his boot and threw it at the Judge. It was a heavv Dooi. too. it was studded with hobnails. hob-nails. "I am still rather proud of the wav 1 wrote up that little incident, doing it neatly and at the same time getting back on a rival reporter whom I disliked I like Ms- ne paraSraPh-some"thing "Suddenly the blackguardly thief pulling off his boot, hurled It with a i mlSht Btra,ht the judge's h.-ad fhis desperate act might have been attended at-tended with most disastrous consequen-j ces. but fortunately the missile only struck a reporter. So no harm was done.' " It does not follow that you must do a mean thing to a man who has done a mean thing to you. The old proverb runs "Because the cur has bitten me, shall I bite the cur?" Easy circumstances aren't invariably invaria-bly connected with easy people, but easy people make easy circumstances for some one else. |