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Show Owes Hli Life to Umbrella. During tho Franco-Gorman war a man owed his llfo to an umbrella. He vh bo obviously a foreigner that tho French arrested him as a German spy. Ho sworo that ho was English, but was disbelieved. A drumhead court-martial sentenced him to In-stnnt In-stnnt execution. As they led him nway ho Insisted on returning, as ho had left something. He could notro-turn, notro-turn, they told him; ho was now going go-ing to bo shot. But ho must go bacV, ho '"'nred. What had he left? they askuu. "My umbrella," ho said. They were InBtnntly convinced that no ono but an Englishman could bo bo helpless an Idiot Ho was at onco liberated. |