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Show As the Boy Understood. A small boy was telling nuothor small boy the story of Cleopatra and when tho narrator got to the period of the dusky queen's death tho listener lis-tener nsked. "What Is an asp?" Unhesitatingly Un-hesitatingly the story teller snld, "It Is a very largo kind of a wasp with a deadly sting, and ns sho atu tho fig the wasp stung her hi tho throat and so she died." The explanation wns glvon In the mast unconcerned way, nnd It was evidently clear to the hoy that that was tho meaning of tho basil bas-il ot of figs and tho asp |