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Show j Presence of Mind. j i ijot.n Pa til i'i Harper's Magazine.) ' It" there 1- oi:e thing that I more than ' another admire i! s the having one's wits j : about one perhaps because I never had I mine. To be possess. , I oj.ly of l'csprit ! d'escalicrs is st'mply an aggravation. ' As ra I ive o;" n-aii v - v. it t d men I re- i ; call an inci.l. rst that I have often told hue ! ; never puhii ho,). Let me do that now in justice to one ibat is gone. . In company with t h. la:.- J. II. Osgood 1 ) once of an .-vt:ii':g dt.-pp-d in at W'al-' W'al-' l.w k's o!.! K,.uMe, !.t!i street theatre. Wo could g.-i no .- !:- as there was standing room only.. A! t.'-n- end ot the tirt act two orchestra seats u.-r.- v:;c..nt tn front, and 5 we walked dowrr and took them. B.ir. ly ) were we seated wh.ti two gentlemanly i looking voutig lr.-ti cam.- down the aisle t and addre.-sed m--: j "la-g pardon, 'out hae vou checks for t those seats'."' I was on til-- oi.i-it :' rising when Osgood Os-good rep!;. !. "No line y.-:i7 " Th.-y h.'-l'i t. It was tie r. I v u hit of supreme l.iatT- .r.ur how t.-w would have had the readiness to meet and parry it. |