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Show The Short Step Between. (Philadelphia Record.) "I was on the Paris when she ran on the rocks off the English coast a couple of years ago," said a Philadelphia traveling trav-eling man yesterday, "and in the panic ' that ensued there was an incident that stands out in my memory, illustrating the slender thread between the tragic and the ridiculous. We had a fellow on board who had managed to keep pretty well loaded all the way across, and when we struck the rocks he was in his usual condition. con-dition. When everybody thought for sure we were going to the bottom, he sat down at the piano in the saloon, and what do you suppose he began playing? 'Home, Sweet Home.' Somebody went to him and begged him to stop. Immediately he switched off from the doleful strains of rhe old song to the rollicking melody of 'Down Went McGinty.' The absurdity of the thing seemed to strikeoeverybody at once and a general laugh followed. The tension was relieved and there was gdod order after that." |
