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Show 1 In the Wrong House. The agent stopped at tlte piazza of the cottage by the sea,-where sat a bronzed and rugged old man. "If tou are troubled with moths, as no doubt you are, I have just the proper remedy," "Moths have never bothered me," laid the old man. "How about the grasshopper pest? t have something here which is guar anteed" "I don't believe I've seen a grasshopper grass-hopper iu 40 years. The tact is" "But surely you want to be prepared pre-pared to fight the locusts. Now, this package contains" "I have never had any trouble with locusts, and I never expect to," replied re-plied the old man. "Well, you've got me stumped," eaid the agent "How do you manage man-age to escape all these things?" "Easily enough. I'm captain ot the brigantine Nellie M., sailing between here and Java." |