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Show 4 11111 I 'M"l' I I 1 I I I 1 1 1 1 1 MY FAVORITE STORIES By IRVIN S. COBB 1 T 1 I I I 1 1 I I 1 I I I I I I I 1 I 1 I I ii COOOCOOOCOCOCOCOCXXXX)6oo (Copyright) Too Much Knowledge for One Mind Tom Wyatt was a Mississippi planter, one of the most generous and hospitable of a breed of men renowned re-nowned for their hospitality and their generosity. His bachelor home, "Belmont," "Bel-mont," in Holmes county, was a'havea of refuge for any down-nnd-outer. a Stranger might come when he pleased and stay as long as he pleased. One summer a certain brilliant and wellborn but dissipated young lawye.-was lawye.-was Wyatt's guest. In periods 0f repentance and temporary abstinence-this abstinence-this gentleman spent his spare hours I poring over the Scriptures. Wyatt, who was an outdoor man and no great shakes of a reader, sul to him : "Jim, you must have rend mighty near half wjiy through the Good Rook by this time, haven't you?" "Why, Tom," jald the visitor, "We read It all the way through, not ones bat several times." "You mean from cover to cover, without skipping a word?" "Yes sir, from cover to cover." Wyatt slowly absorbed this remarkable remark-able statement. After a long pause he made answer: "Jim," he said, "I'm reminded of a remark I once heard made by an old fellow down In the Delta. He said that when any man told him he knew all the multiplication table be must de a d n liar I" |