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Show JUST MATTER OF DEDUCTION As the Boy Explained It, the Finding of Horse Was Really Quite Simple Matter. , ' Speaking Of the development of the story-tolling talent in youth. Kieliarrt Bennett, the actor, is fond of relal'mg this incident : Some years ago a prominent citizen of a town lost a horse, ll wits iki much of a horse. In fact, it was hliiel In one eye and spavined. But. perhaps per-haps as a relic, Bennelt says, lb prominent citizen wanted the luiri-c. So he advertised, offering V) rcwi for its return. The town half-wll, boy of nineteen, wilh a harelip, cant one afternoon leading the borne, with a strap about the size of a shoestring, to the prominent citizen's door. Tit horse's owner was pleased. "Now," said he kindly, soentliig good narrative and perhaps an f-ventnre, f-ventnre, "now, my boy(. here's yor $5; and I'll give you another $." if you'll tell me just how yon found my horse." "Well, all right." said Ihe boy. "I jus' thought If I was that old burs where 1 would go, and I did iiimI b was." He got the extra five. Kansas Star. |