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Show A Joke Astray. I An English clergyman confesses In I the London Tribune that once, rely. I lng on hlB hearers' fund ot humor,' ho . I made a Joko nt a public meetlngT I and was Borry for It very soon aftor- I ward. I He was the speaker at a meeting In I Cornwall, and at tho close of JiIb I speech was compllmentod on his I knowledgo of tho Cornish dialect. I 'Well," ho replied, "that Is easy I enough to understand, becauso I was I a minor myself until I was 21 years I ot ago." "Very praiseworthy, Indocd!1 cried I out a gentleman from tho audlenco; I and nobody seemed to realize thai I overy man was a minor until ho wne I 21. I At tho ond of tho week the clergy I man received a copy of the local news I paper containing un account of the I meeting. "In .response to a voto ol ?, R thanks," ran orio paragraph, "the rev . aff orond gentleman explained bis fa 'ISJ' mlllarlty with tho Cornish dlaloct by the fact that ho himself worked In tho Cornish mines until ho was l years ot age." Youth's Companion " |