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Show GIVE THIS A LITTLE THOUGHT There Is a Point to This Imported 1 Joks, But Perhapa You Will Have Te Look for It. This is f.ot an American Joke. The reader Is solemnly warned that It la of Herman extraction Hermans, j as everybody knows, like their Jests ' broad and brutal. The victim of this one was C.ouslii Hu,o. It seems Cousin Hugo mad a night of It and got borne as the small hours began to cease to be so small As be climbed the stair he stumbled (In ' spite of the most elaborate care) and ' rolled down Into the hall below. The ' 'consequence, for Cousin lluito Is not so young a he used to be, was a brok-en brok-en collarbone and a strained back. ! (Ahead even of the milkman, then, 1 came the family doctor, an estimable I ' old gi-ntlemuu, and administered soothing word while he encased the 1 'patient In plaster, ' ( "I know, my dear sir." he said, "that ' It hurts like the deuce, but It la not 1 a bit dangerous. All the same you'll have to atay In bed for a while. You 1 got a nasty fall. How did it happen? 1 Waa It dark?" j "It was not. doctor." replied Cousin Hugo with some asperity, "It was light" Hut perhapa you are not a beer-drinker beer-drinker New York Evening Tost. |