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Show bally Thought. Peace In this life springs from acquiescence ac-quiescence even In disagreeable things, not In exemption In' bearing them. Fenelon. i ne man That Knew. I had been told that I would 'And good summer board at a certain farmhouse farm-house In Nassau county, L. I., and I was about setting out from the country coun-try railroad station to find the place, when I ran across a man that, looked as It he could tell me all about it. When I asked If he knew Farmer Green he replied: "Yep. Known him ever since ha waa a boy." "Does he take summer boarders?" "Yep." "Got a comfoitablo place?" "Poorest on the Island." "Doesn't be set a good table?" "It couldn't be worse." "I.have'been told that It was a bang-up bang-up place to vacate In for a couple of weeks." "Better go anywhere else. Hia boarders leave after one meal." "But do you really know Oreen?" I asked, thinking I might have made a mistake. "Why, I'm the feller himself!" he replied. "And yet you say that that " "I say that the beds are so blamed poor and the fodder so durned mean that I left the place myself this morning! morn-ing! So long." |