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Show I RATHER UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE. From His Actions, He Must Have Been "Under the Weather." Richard Harding Davis, during his Atlantic City honeymoon, said at a fish luncheon: "I confess that I am not pleased with the modern trend of fiction. The newest new-est fiction is nasty. It leaves a batl taste in the mouth. It is full of double entendre like the parlor maid's remark. "A gentleman came down to breakfast break-fast one morning with bloodshot eyes. He drank eight glasses of ice water hurriedly then he muttered, hoarsely, hoarse-ly, to the pretty parlor maid: " 'Tell me, Adele, did 1 reach home last night very much under the weather?' " 'Indeed you did, sir," the maid replied. re-plied. 'Why, sir, you kissed the missis!' " |