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Show LITTLE LAUGHS. Not His Vegetable. "No, sir," said Mr. Backbay, in reply , to a query, "the shortage in the potato crop does not trouble me in the least I have lived in Boston all my life." Detroit Free Press. t A Paternal Indiscretion. Mr. Jones "Our boys don't seem to respect me as they should." Mrs. Jones "Well, you oughtn't to have let them find out that you couldn't fly a box-kite." Detroit Free Press. The Cause. "There was a bread riot at our house the other day," said Frisbie. "What was the trouble?" asked Parksie. "The bread was soggy and my wife and the cook had words about it" Detroit Free Press. |