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Show CATCH' NOT SUCH A BAD ONE j Some Method in "Madness" of Nice-Looking Nice-Looking Old Man Pictured by Representative Bartholdt. Representative Bartholdt said at a German-American banquet in Milwaukee: Milwau-kee: "Those people remind me of the old man. Yes, they remind me very much of the old man.1 "He had a soft, daft look the old man I'm speaking of and he sat on a park bench in the sun with rod and line, as if he were fishing; but the line, with a worm on the hook, dangled dan-gled over a bed of bright primroses. " 'Daft!' said a passer-by to himself. 'Daft. Bughouse. Nice looking old fellow, too. It's a pity.' "Then, with a gentle smile, the passer-by approached the old man and said : '"What are you doing,, uncle?' " 'Fishing, sir,' answered the old man, solemnly. "'Fishing, eh? Well, uncle, come and have a drink.' "The old man . shouldered his rod and followed the kindly stranger to the corner saloon. There he regaled himself with a large glass of dark beer and a good five-cent cigar. His host, comtemplating him in a friendly, protecting . way as he sipped and smoked, said: , "'So you were fishing, uncle? And how many have you caught this morning?' morn-ing?' "The old man blew a smoke cloud toward the ceiling. Then, after a pause, he said: " 'You are the seventh, sir.' " |