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Show SHE WANTED TCO MUCH. Good-Natured Butcher Was Tired o His Customer. "Well, I'o Jiut had my natlonc medicine," said our particularly good-natured good-natured butcher the other morn lug. "Your patience medicine?" I asked atiPHtlonlnsly. "Why, yes." lie replied, seriously. "I nm having my patlonro tried dnlly now, nnd at tho samo time I feel that It Is being greatly benefited." "Well, what's tho cure!" I wns led to ask. though 1 hardly expected It to he what It was. "Why, for tho past two weeks," responded re-sponded the butcher, "I'vo hnd a new rtiBtomer. Dally she comes in and buys threo-tiuarters of a pound of meat. No more and no less will do, and woe bo unto me If I full to glvo her this exact amount. That wouldn't he so had If sho didn't Insist ulwnys on hnvliiK U sent. I was getting somewhat some-what used to even that when she appeared ap-peared the other day to buy her meat. About ten minutes after I had served her she reappeared carrying it lonf of lirend which she also wnnted me to send niih tb- meat. I li hcarcely recovered re-covered my composure after that when the uppeared with a head of lettuce. That day was pretty sevpre on in" but to-day ho hab juHt finished upbraiding up-braiding inn because I did not havo a postage stamp to hell her. If she doesn't rhungc butchers pretty soon I'm going to movo" Now York World. i |