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Show Tom Ochiltree's Moon. After Tom Ochiltree, tlmt aulo con-pros con-pros raconteur and laugh generator (or the mulcted rich, nettled In .'fw York ni the amuicr of tlio John V. Mackay fmnlly, ho effcrvescCHl In a thousand illfrvrrnt direction!, and wai ni Rootl In aomo wav ns Ham Ward. Ono night he cscorti'il John Mackay'a friend, the Count do lllacout, down to tlio llattury to liow llio sight of Now York. Tlio moon was Brand, and tho count went Into raptures as "her maiden reflection rippled oer tho pearly enters." Ho cried: "Kct lis Rrandl Kct Is grand! Dalr Iss no ...such moon In nil Italy!" "Count," said Ochiltree, solemnly, as befitted tho occasion, "you Just ought to see tho moon In Texas I" |