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Show I Away Ahead of Noah's Ark. A dispute once arose between two Scotchmen, named Campbell and McLean, Mc-Lean, upon the antiquity of their families. The latter would not allow that tho Campbells had any right to rank with the McLeans in antiquity, who, he insisted, were in existence a a clan since tho beginning of the world. Campbell had a little more biblical knowledge than his antagonist and asked of the clan McLean before the flood. "Flood! what flood?" asked McLean. "Why tho flood that drowned all the world but Noah and his family, and his-flock." his-flock." returned Campbell. 'Tooh! you and jour flood," paid McLean, '-my clan was before thai flood of course." 'I have not read in my Bible," said Campbell, "of nny ono of the name ol McLean going into Noah's ark." Noah's ark!" angrily exclaimed McLean "who ever heard of a McLear that hadn't a boat of his own?" |