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Show PLEASED A CURIO HUNTER. Tale Shows How Most Collections Are Made Up. Frank Bnrnlck, the expert cabinet maker who was recently called from New York to Washington to comploto tho repair work at tho Whlto Houso, tells this story of the credulity of ono White Houso visitor. "While covering ono of tho doors of tho state dining room with a piece of ordinary leather, a visitor como to mo and said: 'Oh, plcaso tell mo the history of that leather you aro using. " "Tho newness of tho hldo mado me hesitate about declaring It to havo been a part of tho cargo long years ago of tho Mayflower or even that It came from cattle raised by tho immortal im-mortal Washington. Knowing, how-over, how-over, that it must havo an uncommon history to account for tho lack of tho signs age brings, I replied that as fast as President Roosevelt shot a bear ho was having the pelts tanned, and that what I was tacking to tho door was the skin from a brute of tho Mississippi Missis-sippi Jungles recently killed. "I was as much amused as amazed to havo her turn relic hunter on tho spot and beg earnestly for a scrap of tho stuff. Sho took a piece, her oyes beaming with pleasure, and It no doubt now forms a part of her collection collec-tion of rare relics." Now York Times |