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Show CONSIDERABLE REQUEST. I Joshua Lott,. the genial editor of H the Smileyville Express, was washing M up to go home at the' end of a per- H fectly awful day, when the door open- i H ed and Old Man Wann tottered in. H "Mr. Lott," he said, in a trembling , H voice, "I realize I am very old and. IH feeble and may pass on at any mo- HJ ment. Before it is too late I want to HJ make one last request." H "Yours for tho asking, Mr. Wann," H replied the editor, heartily. "That is, H provided it ain't money." IH ''No," said the old man, reassuring- H ly, "It ain't money. It's Just this: H When I die I want you, for once, to 8H break your established rule and fa- IH Vorite custom. For the sake of those H left bohind, please do not head my H obituarj', 'Gone to His Reward.'" H |