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Show MADE A CLEAN JOB OF IT First Tim Old Gentleman Had Eattn Crab, and Ha Left Nothing on the Dlth. A Jolly old boy from the Midlands enured Into one of the hotel at the seaside, and, awing on the club on th right a crab dressed on the shell with leg, claws and parolcy ranged round, said to the landlord: "Whist dye tall that?" "t'rab," was the answer. "Uioks good. I ll have "un; and gla ua a pint o' ale." I llrcnil and butter wan added and tho diner left to hid dinner. In Hboiit an hour the genial lundlord entered the dining room to see If li 1m guet was getting on all right. He found hi in chawing tip tho hint rlaw, the chawer rod in tht fuci', but bumliig. "I-tkt tho rruh. Kir?" "Yea; he capital. I never tasted Olio afore. Hut ! think you linked 'nil u little too long; tli( crust was hard. Let's have another .lnt." lie had eaten thn lot h II, claws j and ull complete. London Tit lilt. |