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Show The Gooso Got Away. To tho Hon. Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania tho yarn-loving mombors of tho Houso aro giving credit for this story: There wns n rich old farmer who lived In ono of tho interior districts near Philadelphia, and who got tangled tan-gled up in a money transaction with ono ot UIs neighbors. Mr. Alston, for that wa.' his namo, sought an nttor-noy, nttor-noy, who gave him a letter of Introduction Intro-duction to a brother lawyer In Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, at which placo it was necessary neces-sary to outer tho suit. Tho letter was delivered to tho lawyer, and whllo ho was reading It he was called out of tho room, leaving tho letter on his desk. Mr. Alston let curiosity get tho hotter of him and read tho letter, which closed with a postscript stating stat-ing that "Mr. Alston Is a fat goose; pluck him heay." That was enough for tho old farmer, farm-er, and seizing a pen ho wroto: "P. S. No. 2 Tho gooso has flown, feathors and all." It took him about threo seconds to amble down tho stairs nnd Into tho streets, nnd he has not had anything to do with lawyers from that day to this, preferring to pluck his own geese. Washington Times. |