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Show ARE MASTERS OF EVASIVENESS. Itdouln'a Antwtr Typical of the Pto-pla Pto-pla of the E ait. In the fur eaat, when men converse together, nn evasion Is equal to an answer. Hiding down to Knypt over the old caravan route from Jerutalem lo Cairo, Norman Duncan and a party pitched their tents outalde a lledouln village and by so doing offended against the laws of hospitality which the people so reltglou.ly maintain Mr. Duncan, writing In Harper's Mug atltie, .ays that he was obliged to turn aside their reproaches and avoid lb" abominable quarters which were atlll being offered. Turning to hla guide, be said: "The man muat be diverted Ask hi m If the world la round or Hut." The reply was a pure philosopher's philoso-pher's Jewel of Ihe eaat. "If the world la flat," came the response, after heavy pondering, "1 am content; If It Is round. It la by Clod's wisdom." Aud tho men softly applauded. In tii'lr idi-UHUre forgetting their Injury, fur setting everything i opt Hie Joyous native craft of words. Never Satisfied. Make a man a present of a four-cylinder four-cylinder automobile, and the prohabll 111. a are that ho will icrot that It lau't a slxrylludur affair. |
