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Show II Coal Cheapest "a la Carte." An English town boasts the posses-' posses-' slon ot a coal vender who knows , some French. He is not sure of It, ( but his pride in It is prodigious. Little Lit-tle Gallic phrases keep slipping Into rhls casual speech, and they light it j with a quaint charm. As, for Instance, when he was asked his prices for coal I by a woman customer. "Well, madam," he replied, "it you take It 'a la carte' 1 it's 20 shillings the ton, but it you take it 'cul-de-sac' It's a shilling extractor ex-tractor the bags." |