Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-02-19 | Page 3 | A Weak Defense

A Weak Defense. Senator Burton was talking about the defense put up by a certain corporation. cor-poration. "This defense," he said, "is very funny. It reminds me of Blank. "Blank, after a lot of Christmas shopping and so forth, sat down on a curbstone and fell asleep. "A city missionary shook him by the arm and said: " 'What's the matter with you, my son?' " 'Been shoppin',' said Blank tired and sleepy.' "'Shopping!' said the missonary reproachfully. re-proachfully. 'But I saw you come out of that saloon.' "Blank looked up from the curbstone curb-stone in surprise. " 'Do you hie know who I am?' he said. " 'No.' " 'Then,' said Blank, 'how hie did you know it was me?' "