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Show No Hope "Whilst I was iu town yiste'd'y," in the crossroads store, related Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, "I seed a man painting the church steeple. He-was He-was setting on a seat on a rope away np yander and a lot of people stood-around stood-around gawping nt him. A feller bantered ban-tered me for a dog swap, but I says : " 'Walt till this painter falls down, and I'll Jtne you.' " 'Shucks I" says the dog feller. 'He hain't a-golng to fall. He painted It about three yenrs ago, and didn't fall then. Come on 1' " Kansas City Star. |