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Show They Were Clean Misses. There are always two ways of tell-ins tell-ins the truth. The man who told the ' kinn that he would outlive all his subjects was a true courtier, and tin-! derstood human nature far more than the man who was put to death for declaring de-claring to the same mouarch that all his subjects would die before him. The gamekeeper in Francis Picon's "Odds nnd Knds" also had the Rift of presenting the plear.antest side of a fact. A certain noble lord was a very bad shot. One day. nftr a particularly di.scoiirai'lriK exhibition of his bun-llnc. bun-llnc. he tali to the ke.-fu-r: "Now. my man. tell rue the truth. Did you ever pee any one who shot as badly as I do?" "Ob, yes, my lord." returned the keeper. "I've seen worse Bhots than your lordship. Your lordship misses the birda so cleau." Youth's Con-, panloti. |