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Show A PARTING SHOT. "Perhaps it is best after all," remarked re-marked the rejected suitor as he lingered lin-gered in the hall. "A man of twenty-five twenty-five would probably soon tire of a wife who hovered around the thirty-two mark." "Why, Mr. Ardent," said the woman in the case, "how very ungallant you are to Insinuate that I am thirty-two." "Well, perhaps you are not," he replied, re-plied, "but it certainly struck me that you were somewhere near the freezing point." And with this parting shot be crawled into his ulBter, let his person through the front door, and hastened to flag the next car headed downtown. SURE THING. 1 "Strive to excel in your own line, my boy, no matter how humble." "No doubt it pays, dad." "Invariably. Even a good wood chopper chop-per can get into vaudeville." |