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Show somepu. sc-".::: oment. An Experience of One Man with His Mitguided Friends. "I hate tho pun direct and despise the director," said the man who looked look-ed as If real humor would please htm, relates the New York Press. "Now, 1 know a very decent sort of fellow In other icspects who was here during Lent. Ho is a Chicago chap but that is his misfortune, not his fault. He asked mo one day when Easter was duo. I told him 1 was surprised that he, a church attendant, shouldn't know, and a' ' ed him how it happened he was so Ignorant. " 'Well,' he replied in a dogged kind of way, 'why should I bo expected to know? I'm not an easterner.' "That was bad enough and worse was to coni. but not from Chicago. Brooklyn vb the, source of tho trouble this time. I was coming over the bridge with tho man and ho was reading about tho czar ordering Ilo-Jostvcnsky Ilo-Jostvcnsky to meet the Japs. I said something or other, when tho man told mo about It nnd he came back with this: " TosBibly the czar m say he has Togo, but It seems to me he can Nebo gatoff.' "Isn't that almost a crime? And still another one came at me that very same day, but It wasn't the direct kind and not so had on nccount. I said to a Wall street man that Mr. Llmburgcr v. is counsel frr the Smiths In the Patterson trial, and right away ho said with confidence: 'Yes, and bo's the cheese.' " |