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Show &uJl at aAt! A butcher was in the habit of sending his son with a small car to deliver orders. The lad was a careless driver, and one day he knocked down an old lady. A lawsuit followed, and the butcher had to pay damages. Shortly after this the son was the cause of another accident, which had a similar unfortunate result, and the drain on the butcher's resources re-sources Lrought him to the verge of ruin. A few days after the second case had been settled, he was thinking over his hard fate when a neighbor j rushed in with the information that I the butcher's wife had been run over by the careless driver of a motorcar, and was in a hospital. "Thank goodness," exclaimed the butcher, "my luck's changed at last!" |