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Show DUKE DID NOT LAUGH LAST. Practical Joke Is Not So Funny as It Had Seemed. Duke Carl ot Wuiieniberp was very fond of practical jokes In his joungor davs Onre he railed at a faunhouse am1 nski'd t lie farmer's wife, who was churning, for a cjass of milk. Sho did not know her visitor, hut went nvvaj to fetch the milk when tho Duke aeled a cat which was lying near and threw It, witli a diieat. Into the churn. When the old woman i plumed ho drank the milk and walked away. A j ear later the same pilpco entered the house In a different diess, and again asked for n glass or mill;, and in-nulled in-nulled whether .someone hadn't ouco seeteted a cat in her churn The fanner's fann-er's wife laughed, and snld: "Oh, jeh, and I wouldn't mi ml him doing it again at the same price." "What did oi do with t lie butter ou weie chin ulng then?" "Oh. I soul It lo the palace, whore the tnko all my bUift'" |