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Show Marking the TraiL The Earl of W arwick at a banquet in Washington Washing-ton was quizzed about the hunting yarns ho had swapped with the president at the White boose. ''Oh. yes," Lord Warwick said playfully, "they were tall yarns tall on my side, 1 mean. I outdid out-did the wandering hen. "A hen, you know, set out to see the world and met a crow in a distant wood. " 'But,' said the crow, 'are you not afraid, without with-out wings, of losing your way in all this tangle?' "'Afraid? Not I,' scoffed the hen. 'Every little lit-tle while I lay an egg to guide myself back by.' St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |