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Show A Lucky Awkwardness. 85! An old, steady-going rarmer was ao HK customed to ride to tho market town H upon a rather bad-tempered horse. Ht One day his hoy Bob brought tho an- H' lm.il, who was especially vicious that ww morning, round to tho door, and held 9$ him by tho brldlo while waiting for Ws tho armor to como cut. K Tho horse tried to blto and kick tho B lad, and gavo him a good deal of ' H trouble, but at last the farmer ap- Ire pcarcd, mounted tho horse with some K difficulty and began walking It out oC RK tho yard. Then Bob, who still enter talned Ill-feeling against tho animal, B caught up a stone and flung It at him H with nil his forco; but, alas! his aim Q was erratic and tllo mlssllo struck B his master on the back of the head. R Half-dared for n moment, tho farm- H er turned slowly round In his saddlo, H and. never suspecting tho real cause H of the blow, ho measured with his eyo B tho dlstanco from tho horso's hind B hoofs to his own head, and, sottlod B himself In tho saddle again, started B his mount into a trot with tho re- B mark: "Well, ho always was n awkward beggar." iff |