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Show JUST FOR FUN. A Successful Quest. ' "Well, Bill, how did you como out vlth the trust company?" "Fine." "They accepted your offer, did they?'' "Yep." . "What kind of a job did they give you?" "Didn't give me any." "Then how did they accept your proposition?" "I offered them the refusal of my services, and they accepted It refused re-fused 'em right off tho handle." Harper's Weekly. Impulsive. A Loulslllo man who has had many negroes In his employ met one of his former workmen on the street recently, and, after the customary questions, said: "Whore your brother George now?" "Why, Mistah Brown, suh, Georgo nm dead Yessah, he was found dead In his bed." "Passed away suddenly, I take It." "Yessah, Mistah Brown, but then George he was always mighty Impul-sUe." Impul-sUe." A Sly Suggestion. They had reached the outer portals 1 of tho front door, and were there going through tho process of parting, try lingerlugly. "When I say good Dight to you this evening," gurgled Mr. Yountslow, "'Do you think It would be proper for mo to place one reverent kiss upon your fair hand?" "Well," she sighed, softly, aa sho Id Id her head quietly ou his shoulder, shoul-der, "I should consider It decidedly out of pluco." Llpplncolt'd. The Real Thing. Fred, aged 3, had been a naughty bry, and his mother had punished h'm. He felt very much hurt and complained to his auntie about his mamma's spanking him Auntie said, "It Is not you thnt mamma spunks, but a little devil lns!di of you who MHkes you do naughty things." After Fitting very still for five minutes he said. 'It beats all how It hurts me when that devil gets spanked." The Delineator. Down on the Farm. "Gee, pop," whispered tho little boy at Ibo country boarding house, , ' the landlady siiys I h3 table Is groaning groan-ing with good things. What does she menu by that?" "Sh! Not so loud," whispered his father as ho tackled a half-raw beet. "Maybe it Is groaning with Indigestion." Indiges-tion." Chicago News. |