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Show rought a Rush. "Yeas," related the old postmaster at Bacon Ridge, "times were getting rather dull around here, so we had to resort to some press agent tactics like you show fellows. Tho village editor ed-itor put an a I In his paper that 'Hiram Brown woul take city boarders at five dollars a doen.'" "Qreat Bernhardt!" gasped tho theatrical the-atrical manager. "You don't mean to say that Hiram kept his word?" "That's what ho did, stfangor, with reductions In large lots." "But how could he board thom at flvo dollars a dozen?" "He didn't board them, stranger; he Just took them. You seo, Hiram Brown is tho village photographer." |