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Show Revenge in Kind. (Youth's Companion.) A story was told at a recent dinner of a New York literary club which goes back to the time- when a certain famous man was governor of Massachusetts. The tale sounds like a revival of a newspaper yarn contemporaneous with its hero. At any rate, it is worth re-telling. Along a country road in the north of Maine plodded a French-Canadian with a trained bear, making his way to- a county fair. "At a crossroad he met a long-whiskered Yankee driving a mule. They nodded to each other and were continuing on their ways, when suddenly the Frenchman French-man pricked up his ears.' "G'long there. Napoleon," the farmer drawled to his mule. The Frenchman stopped short and listened list-ened again. "Git ap, Napoleon," called the Yankee. "I say, ma fren," called the Canadian, bringing his bear to a halt, "what for you call ze zhackans Napoleon?" "That's his name,"- replied the farmer, Indifferently. "Well, he is no name for a zbackass. Napoleon was a great general." I'So's my mule." replied the other, good-naturedly. good-naturedly. "Geddap, Napoleon." The Frenchman lost patience. "Look 'ere, ma fren," he said, "you call zat zhackass Napoleon wance more time, I tell yon w'at I do. You see zat black bear? Wall, I poke hl one eye out an' call him. Ban.' Butler." |