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Show oo RECIPROCITY. Old Farmer Bates was pointing out the merits of tho neighborhood he lived in to his newly arrived lodger. "There's a church near," he said, "but I never puts my nose in it." "Why?" asked the visitor. "Is anything any-thing the matter with the vicar?" "No," was the reply; "but it's this Tvay. i sold the old vicar milk and eggs and butter and cheese, and, seeing see-ing as he patronized me, I patronized him. But this new chap keeps 'Is own cow and 'ens. 'If that's your game, I thought, 'we'll 'ave 'ome-grovsn r llgion, too!" i' |