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Show I SUBTLE JUSTICE IVVREYN0LDS PL'1 ','' 'i', Associate Justice McReynolds of the United States Supreme court prefaces pref-aces nearly everything he has to say with a story. Occasionally McReynolds tells a story with a point so subtle that only those with a keenly pitched sense of humor can "get" him. One night at a dinner he sprang something that occasioned oc-casioned not the slightest ripple of laughter. He waited a reasonable length of time and then observed: "Well, at least don't cry about it." Nobody got that either. They didn't understand what it was that they weren't to cry about. So McReynolds McRey-nolds added: "It'll come in, may be by freight." An Englishman was seated next U McReynolds, and his curiosity was aroused. "What do you mean when you say come by freight?" he inquired. "Slowly, like a freight train," ex plained McReynolds; they'll get the story if they wait long enough, don't you see?" A great light dawned in the Englishman's eyes. "Ah, he exclaimed, "you mean steam packet. Story shipped by steam packet 'Twould be utterly absurd, wouldn't it ha, ha, ha." |