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Show Didn't Need the Job. A lady In Portland, Me., passing by a garden saw a rather shabbily dressed dress-ed man working on some trees. "What aro you doing to those tree trunks V asked she. "Olrdllng them, madam, with printer's print-er's Ink and cotton, to keep oft the canker worms," answered the man. "How much does It costt" Inquired she. "About twenty-flvo cents apiece," was the reply. "Well, I wish you would come and glrdlo ours. What Is your name?" "Hill," tho man replied; but, although al-though the lady repeated tho request about going to girdle her trees, the man roturnod an evasive anBwer. That night she spoke to her husband about the accurenco. "Why," Bald her husband, laughing, "that man Is Rev. Dr. Hill, late president presi-dent of Harvard university, and recently re-cently appointed pastor of the First church." |