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Show y HE DIDN'T SEE ANY. A gentleman who we shall call Smith, on leaving leav-ing home one morning, said to his children: "Xow, cnildren, I'm going to bring home an old chum of mine for dinner this evening. This poor fellow has been very unfortunate; he once had a very severe affliction of the nose, and he is very sensitive about it. What I want to say is this: Don t any of you children dare--mind you, I said dare don't yon dare to make any remarks about his nose! It would hurt me almost as much, if not more, than it would him. We were old friends together, to-gether, and I wouldn't have him hurt for the World. Xow, you all understand? ' The children all said they did, and the father went, to his usual business in the city. When night came and the father returned with his old chum, the children stood around and stared at him for some minutes, when .the youngest in the family, a boy of 6. cried out: ' v. ' "Papa, you said we shouldn't make any remarks about Mr. Brown's nose. Why, J. don't see he's g'st any." Mobile Register. |