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Show I THEY COULD TALK DANISH. Two merchants engaged in the Sewing Machine business, came down fioin Salt Lake not so very long ago and traversed our fair country doing a good business, visiting friends and having a good time generally. After a some what lengthened lengthen-ed slay, thev persuaded one of our 'fair and witty Scandinavian gills to go back with them for a visit, and returned home. Thinking jt would add to their scholarly scholar-ly prestage.if they could air a liitle Danish Dan-ish when they got home, they asked the young lady to teach them several sen-sentences, sen-sentences, among the rest they asked her for the most approved form ol greeting greet-ing from a gentleman to a lady. She told them very demurely, "God dag, smukke pige ya elsker da", which they repeated till they could say it "without an accent." ac-cent." Imagine the surprise of a danish lady who went into their place ol business busi-ness a lew days later, when the pro-pnetor, pro-pnetor, casting a smile ol superiority over the heads of the clerks, advanced too ward the lady in a brisk business like way and said: "God d ig, smukke pige ya elsker da. "(Good day, pretty girl I Ijve you.) She looked at him one moment, with mingled scorn and anger, and left the store, without so much as a "God dag." He has had the sentence translated since. |