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Show A Joke tin .1. ker. When 11.11 Nye and V, III Vlaseher were t. un lug together In the far West they acquired the lml.lt of Riiylng each other for the purpose of relieving the Uiolioloiiv of line ii i : lit annuls, lis Ibelr slui.ta were the same, respectively, every night during Hie season. Vlaseher at Hint time and for many years had a inonsir.iusly big red nose, which he prided himself upon, more or less, as a distinguishing murk and as evidence that he wns sutllclently woul-thy woul-thy to keep up the color. Nye, on the occasions referred to, be. lug nlways tlrst to appear, would say, lu Ii I h ullar drawling manner: Tor this season I have Interspersed and lui-'rruptcd this enterlniuineiit Willi a large ard bright now feature.. When niy friend, Vlss -her, comes out you will seo tho feature to which 1 allude." al-lude." Then, nfler having done bis turn, he would say: "You tuny now turn dow . the lights and 111, csslttsnt w ill come ou." Oili-e when tbe pate wero appearing In a regular theatre, Vlaseher discovered discov-ered In a dressing room some grease paint that bad been left there by an nclor. The paint wos of lb proper Herb Hut, mid he made himself up with a nose that looked very hninau, and when bo enuie on the audience could not see the point to Nye's Joke. Aa Vlaseher always afterward carried the tube .flight pnlut In bis pocket. Nye w ns afraid lo utteuipt bis crlinsou Joke again. |