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Show ; ' i'-r i i i i i i i i i i i i t i i j Objected to Shaving by Monkey Apprentice work diligently on the customer's face. Afterwards he grabbed a razor and started to strop It with equal diligence, but In a grossly careless manner. Then lie clambered up on the arm of the chair and made as It to begin sharing the alarmed customer. "No. na. ma wee mannle!" said the tatter. Jumping to bis feet and pushing push-ing the monkey aside. "I've no objections objec-tions to ye soapln me. an' yer strop-pin' strop-pin' maybe n' richt. but yer futlier'll line to do the shnvln'i" Sir Harry Lauder Is fond ot telling the following story: The sailor son of an Arbroath barber bar-ber hud brought bonie with him a large, hairy, and particularly ugly monkey, which he presented to bis father. The barber trained the monkey mon-key to assist him In the lathering of bis customers' chins, much to theli amusement One day a stranger dropped Into the shop, and bad a good look at the monkey mon-key sitting In a far corner staring In telllgently at a comic puper. By and hy the bur ber was culled to the dooi to answer some query or other, and In bis absence the monkey seized the lathering brush and proceeded to |