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Show DIDN'T FIND IT INTERESTING Settler Had No Hesitation in Declaring Declar-ing Encyclopedia Had Its Dry, Spots. Dudley Field Malone, the new collector col-lector of the port of New York, said to a reporter: "I'm too new to my job to talk about It yet. If I talked about It I might, like the mountaineer, give away my ignorance. "A man was hunting in Pike county, and up around Porters lake he visited a settler's house. "He noticed a volume of a good encyclopedia on a shelf above the gun, and said: " 'It must be a handy thing away off here to have an encyclopedia.' " 'Yep,' said the mountaineer. 'Yep, she's handy. I only got the first book.' "'Why haven't you got the others?' " 'I ain't finished this one yet, so I ain't ready for another. I bought this one off'n an agent about eight years ago. He come round six months afterwards aft-erwards and says, says he: "Here's yr second volume, mister." What?" eays I. "Why, I ain't In- jsedt.he first volume yet. You jest dig ll the same and i h . V 0,"n,"- -'that I exr streaks, like most evoryfhL , |