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Show Narrowing Down to the Facts There were two brothers; a truthful truth-ful brother and a brother who was the most incorrigible and persistent liar in the county. As a result of the latter's chronic embellishments of facts the whole family was getting a bad reputation. The truthful brother took him in hand. "Look here, Bill," he said, "you're disgracing the name. This thing has got to stop. The next time you start in to exaggerate just keep your eye on me. When you begin to go too for I'll give you a hard look and that'll he a signal to you to begin soft-pedaling." soft-pedaling." The very next day the two brothers were In the company of a group of their fellow citizens. The talk drifted to the subject of big city hotels. This was a cue for the liar. "Speakin' of hotels," he said, "I know a hotel out In Californy that Is twenty-two stories high, has a thousand rooms In It, eight dining-rooms, dining-rooms, fourteen bowling alleys, twenty-two twenty-two swimming pools, thirty soda-wnter soda-wnter fountains, forty-eight billiard halls and " here he caught a hard look from the good brother "and is three feet and a half wide." |