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Show BROWN'S LATE HOME-COMING Striking Clocks Hcglstered a Record for Gentleman of Somewhat Convivial Hablta. ISrowii lmd coino linini very late nfU'f 11 cnnvlvlnl cvpiiIdk t 11 mnok Ins,' coiii'i'it mill liml viinstiiiifd moro clKiirn nnd rofrenlmn'itts tlmt wits piixl for him. It wiih iiihlnlslit when he rwichetl homo, hut ho did not know It. "AhT ho mtittorcd, "If tho rhurch flock would only Htrlku, I nliould know tho tiino. U'h too dnrlc to hoc." Hut hnrk I .hint its ho Hpokc tho clock heftim' to Htriko. ItrouthloHHly, Jlrown' eoiiutoil. "Ono, two, three, four, live, six, Kuvon, eight, nine, ton, eleven, twelve t" Hut nt tlmt moment ituother clock heKiin. '"riilrteen," counted llrown, "fourteen, "four-teen, lltteen K'reat Scott! .sixteen, .seventeen, eighteen gracious nlno-teon, nlno-teon, twenty, (III), twenty-one, twenty-two (III), twenty-three mercy on ux! twenty-four (III)." Mopping his Hteamliig brow ho exclaimed: ex-claimed: ".My word, I've never been out ho Into .it all my llfol" 1'lttHlnirgh Chronicle-Telegraph. |