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Show What Stumped Him. Many instances have been quoted of the ingenuity of the schoolboy and the college man in answering examination exam-ination questions In foreign languages, but seldom has a hard-pressed undergraduate under-graduate displayed the inventive gen. ius shown by Henry W. Savage when his knowledge of French was put to the test in a Parisian cafe some year ago. According to George Ade, who-was who-was with him at the time, Savage-prides Savage-prides himself on his French. He had Just succeeded by dint of the most Intense In-tense sort of concentration in ordering those copper-colored oysters known to the habitues of Paris as being among-the among-the oldest inhabitants. Then, flushed with victory, he rashly decided to follow fol-low up his success by ordering soma horse-radish. The French word for "horse-radish" had completely escaped his memory. Nothing daunted, he became be-came at once logical and Ingenious. "Horse is cheval," said he to Ade, "and red is rouge all right, but Tin damned if I can remember the French, word for 'ish.' " |