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Show I Paddy's Idea of It. I';i.burg Press.) An Irishman was in the habit of coming home considerably the worse for liquor. I His wife frequently upbraided him for his failing, and one day she got an oppor-I oppor-I tunity to show him an illustration which j the hoped might teach him a lesson. Tho j husband wa.; watering his; horse at a j trough when his wife said: "Now, Paddy, is not th- baste an example t' ye? Don't you see, he lzves oft' whin he hez enough'.' He's th' most slnsible baste of th' two." "Oh. it's very well to diseoorse that way. Biddy," replied Paddy, "but if there wor another horse at th' other soide of th' trough to say. 'Here's ver health, me ould bye.' would he stop till he drank th' entoire contlnts of th' trough, think ve?" . ' |