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Show . PUT FISJH IN HIS MILK. A. Crnel Treatment of nomm "1'mUly" O'llur.i jy Two City JoluCrt. "Paddy" O'liani, butcher and milkman milk-man of La Conner, with bin fountains of mirth and Oenming face, is in the city again taking in the sights, iays the Seattle Times. "Paddy" is a character, char-acter, an original fellow, and is icnuwn to everyone in Skagit county, also to most nil of the old-tuners of Seattle. He likes to tell stories, hut here Is one that another fellow told on him: ' The duties of mllkmnn in La Conner are in a large measure regarded as those of a public servant, and if the milkman is ever mispccted op watering his milk a public scandal is the reuit, O'Hnrii was continually annoyed by some of his customers in their bnnter-ing bnnter-ing way accusing him of selling watered wa-tered milk. One of them declnred he would prove the milk was watered, and a wager was quickly closed w ith two of the most noted "joshers" in the community. com-munity. The. nest morning "Paddy" was more careful than ever, and gave his customers custom-ers ahnoHt pure cream. Ills content was short-lived, however, for in tho presence of his best lady customer, as he poured out the rich fluid, what should glide out of the can into the measure but three smnll Puget .sound jilversid" salmon. O'llura was great l,v excited nnd his customer equally , alarmed. Ilo declared loud and long thut he had been "jobbed," nnd, to sub- ' dantiate thp assertion, he even said I that If he did wuter his milk a little he was not guilty of putt-lug in the fish, as that would only torj plainly display i "rfniinal carclenrvs. ' |