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Show Maleil (rum IlfHlli. An English traveler once met a companion, com-panion, sitting In a stato of tho most woeful despair, and apparently near the last agonies, by the side of one at the mountain lakes of Swltxerlund He Inquired the cause of his sufferings Oh," Bald the latter "I wna very hot and thirsty, and took a large draught of the clear water of the lake and then eat down on this stone to consult my guide bonk To my astunlshment I found that the water of this lake Is very poisonous! Oh I am a gone man 1 feel It running all over me I have only a few minutes to live! llemem- ber me to " Let me see the guide book," said his friend Turning to tho pnvse, he found, 'L'eati du lac eat blen polssoneuse ' the water of this lake abounds In fish ' la that the meaning of It? ' "Certainly" Ihe dying man looked up with u radiant countenance ' What would have he-come he-come of you " said his friend, ' If I had not met youl" "I should have died of Imperfect knowledge of the Trench language "Argonaut |