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Show Followed the Same Craft In the days whan Blr Oman Puffy was a loading tlRure In Victorian politics poli-tics there sat In Ihe Melbourne parliament par-liament a wealthy but not wellln formed butcher. The chief secretary of the day was deprecating the sltl-tude sltl-tude of ths leader of the opposition. whoB conduct wss, he declared, ore than Noro'a. "Who was Nero?" Interjected Inter-jected tho kntuht of tho cleaver, with erpial scorn and sincerity. "Who was Noro?" replied the delighted chief secretary. sec-retary. "The honorable gentleman oiiitht to know. Noro was s celebrated Roman butcher." |