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Show Too Much of a Good Thing. Arnold Dal) had been Invited to tell a story at a theatrical banquet In New York. "I alwnVb bate to tell a story," ho began, be-gan, "beca ."( my listeners may have heard It beroro. What boredom that Ib ror them, whnt agony for me. "It Is like the case of a filcnd of mine He Ib deaf, but tiles to conceal his deafness "And one night nt a dinnci tho host told a story at which everybody roared and my deaf friend Joined In und out-roared out-roared tho whole table, though in truth he hadn't heard a word "'That story,' ho began, 'reminds me of another one ' "And then tho poor fdlow wont on and told the ver) same yarn the host had repeated only 'a uikmta loforo " |