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Show CHEERING HIM UP A professional boxer wns badly beaten In a sparring match and carried car-ried to I1I3 bed exhausted nnd melancholy. mel-ancholy. "I wish you'd say something t o cheer lilm up4 doctor," pleaded tho dofeatcd warrior's wlfo. "Ho's getting get-ting low In his mind, and when ho's llko that you've n0 Idea how hard it Is to wait on him, He's worse than a bear with a toothache." "Wh'at can I say that will please him most?" asked the doctor. "You might Just tell lilm, In an offhand way that tho man that lick-cd lick-cd him Is mighty bnd in tho hospital hospit-al and that they may have to hold n post mortem on him any mlnuto, now," wns tho solemn suggestion. London Telegraph. |