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Show I Not Even One Honest Man in French Village Just as New England has its stories of wooden nutmegs, so France has cer tuin classics revealing the tendency ol her countrymen to save pennies now and then at the expense of their fellows. fel-lows. One of the best concerns a popular village priest. The villagers voted amid great enthusiasm to give hira a barrel of their best wine for his birthday. birth-day. Each of the wine growers was to bring a bottle and empty It into the barrel. On the appointed day peasant after peasant marched up to the tarrel, eulogized eu-logized the priest, and plunging the nozzle of his green bottle through the bunghole poured Its gurgling contents within. When the last contribution had been made the chairman of the committee made an even longer speech of praise, and drew from the barrel to drink the health of the priest. To the astonishment of everybody, the glass contained only clear water. Each farmer had assumed that the other would bring the wine. |