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Show RATHER NEATLY SUMMED UP Old Uncle Cy Reynolds Proved Himself Him-self a Master o' the Art of Kindly CHt'Cism. "Ever notice l.nw imrd it Is to get a criticism of a nook out of the people round here''' ;:.skcd I he Judge of the nuliior :is they sat together in an old iii- tmiitry hum. "Yet. if you wring it nut i.f i hem. they're masters of the uiiisi refreshing shades of appreciation." apprecia-tion." Tile author said he did not doubt it. but that he always shied at talking simp in summer. "For seme time." continued the judge. "I've been sending Uncle Cy Reynolds the works of one of the best-advertised American novelists. I've asked him whether he liked the stories, mid he'd smile and nod and say lie was 'much obliged' for 'em. Then he'd have urgent business elsewhere. else-where. "Yesterday I said to him. 'Well, Cn-clu Cn-clu Cy. which are Blank's best books?" " 'Who knows?" he refilled. "'You must. have an opinion,' I persisted. per-sisted. " 'Wnl. then,' said he, 'I sh'd say sometimes they're good and sometimes they ain't so good, and sometimes they're wnl. I do' know.' " The author's latigh rang In with the Judge's "Never was mediocrity more neatly summed up !" he said. Youth's Companion. |