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Show An English iord was traveling through this country with a small party par-ty of friends. At a farmhouse the ow ner invited the party in to supper, i Th-2 good housew ife, while preparing j the table, discovering she was entertaining enter-taining nobility, was nearly overcome with surprise and elation. All seated at the table, scarcely a moment's peace did she give her distinguished distin-guished guest in her endeavor to setve and please him. It was "My Lord, will you have some of this?" and "My Lord, do try that." "Take a piece of this, my Lord:" until the meal was nearly finished. fin-ished. The little 4-year-old son of the family, fam-ily, heretofore unnoticed, during a moment mo-ment of supreme quiet saw his lordship lord-ship trying to reach the pickle dish, which was just out of reach, and turning to his mother, said: "Say. ma, God wants a pickle." |