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Show A Lucky Lie John Silver was surrounded hy friends. And how must friends be entertained? en-tertained? By some sort of story surely. Silver thought for some time, and began : "I don't know If any of you knew 1 it, but I am going to Mexico next month." ! "You are really going to Mexico?".; "And why shouldn't I go to Mex- : ico?" asked Silver. In the manner of friends they re- , plied: "1-ivery other man dies of malaria." "It is simply unbearable with poisonous poi-sonous fleas." 'You 1km o to go to bed Mth a revolver re-volver in oae hand." "What's more. Silver, very few people peo-ple ever come hark." And then Silver exi-'almed. neartily: "Well, it certainly is a lucky thins I was Iving!" i |