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Show XV Hy HE HAD 'REMEMDE'RED It It generally ihe unusual thing which la the easiest to remember hut It seldom happens that erectly ihe same elements In any situation are most unnsual or moat striking to any two onlookers A man who has trav Hed many tiroes up and down the Mississippi iloml on the levee at Cspn Girardeau Mo, one noontime, wait ing for Ihe arrival of a downhound packet hot her prospective paeeen ger elepped up and accosted htm I'ardoti me euh, he said ' i on and I have met befo but you do not remember me IViubtlea If you will recall the clrrumetanre I ahall do eo laid the other Well auti It was at Itahneld Ah kansai, one evening five yeara ago' I renumber Hatfield and the even Ing perfectly said ihe man accosted It waa a frightfully stormy night The mud at Hatfield waa deeper than I had ever seen before I bad moored by boat at the bank In front of town but the bank was an soft I could not climb It I shinned up a rope to the lop wadtd over my shoes In mud to a store bought some groceries and returned to my cabin by all ling down a iHRiber rhute My wife cooked supper sup-per and we spent an evening reading awwl from Mark Twain a Life on tho Mleiltelppl' A raft of logs broke loose and went down atream, and at I hod nw skiff lo follow them with, I ehouied an alarm and othera went The rain turned to anow before morn Ing and the neit morning which waa Sunday, the steamer Kerd llerold came In from Memphis at daybreak," ' Yee, tub said Ihe men who remembered re-membered him Yes sub, I reckon all those things ah so (do not recall them howeveh llshfleld la always muddy when It ralna, the lerd llerold comes In every week logs often bresk away and none of those, things It fastened Into my memory ' Hut sun I was setlln In the eto' thai evenln when you entered Wheh you mine torn no oho of ua knew. You bought euh two pounds of rice and a on of tomatoes Now, aub, f neveh knew a gentleman to buy Juat that combination of groceries at Ihe tame lime befo, and not one of ua could Imagine euh Jea what a man who so fah at we could aee, dldn'l live theh and dldn t have any home fob. ueln them wne goln lo do with two pounda of rlco and only one can of tornatoea I have reinemMied ou ever since, lib, and hava always wondehed what you dll with them" Youths Com pen Ion |