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Show THE BANDAGE SLIPPED OF. - Thereby Exposing a Ruso to Savs the Family Pride. A Kansas City professional "man, who is prominently identified with Missouri politics. Hells tho following story on himself: "My folks moved from Indiana to Johnson county, Missouri, Mis-souri, when I was six years of ago. Wo settled on a .farm near Itoldcn. Tho flrst Sunday wo wtfVe there) nnd whllo tho family wae .preparing for Sunday school. It -was discovered that il did not have any shoes. My mother, realizing that "folks would italk' If one of her children mado his flrst public appearance barefooted, suggested that I havo a cloth tlod laround one foot to create tho' impression impres-sion that I was unable to wear shoes 'bacause of a sore foot. So tho rag was tied on me. Everything went a-ong smoothly and I learned all about What's-hls-name's bears eating tho bad children up, when I heard a snicker from a boy I 'afterwards licked. Ho wqt pointing to my right foot. I glanted downward. The rag bad sllpptd off and ray mother's ruso was eijioscd." |