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Show Hardly Complimentary. A New England housewife one afternoon after-noon received a call from a hobo to whom that morning she had given: some doughnuts. The knight of the road doffed his-ragged his-ragged headpiece and with great civility civil-ity addressed her thus: "Madam, this morning you gave me-three me-three doughnuts. Would it be asking too much to request a fourth?" "I'll be glad to give you another," said the woman, as she prepared to wrap one in a newspaper. "So you like my doughnuts, do you?" "It isn't that, madam," explained tha hobo. "You see, some friends of mine down in the meadow wish to have a game of quoits." |