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Show Double Cause for Tears. A favorite limerick is brought to mind by the following tale from tho Orient: Timur-lenk, the Tartar invader, was very ugly and, catching a glimpse of himself in the mirror, he burst into tears. Tho court jester began weeping also and kept it up long after his master mas-ter had stopped. Timur looked at him in astonish-nirnt. astonish-nirnt. "I wept with reason," he said, "at beholding my own ugliness I, the lord of so many lands. Put I do not understand why you should thus despair." de-spair." "If ynu, my lord," replied the jester, "wept for two hours after seeing yourself your-self in the inirror for an instant, is it not natural that I, who see you all day long, should weep longer than you?" |