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Show ilOKE ON SCHOOL VISITOR, Fortunately Hamilton Mabie Was Well Able to Appreciate Unconscious ' Humor of the Children. The late Hamilton W. Mabie, the, well-known American essayist, was! one of those genial men who enjoyed a joke on themselves. Illustrating this phase of Mr. Mabie's character, It is, told that when he -was a student St.1 Mabie made an address in which he-told he-told this story : ! He had visited a school In Philadelphia Philadel-phia In which there was a daily fire-' drill. The teacher regularly asked the, students, "Children, what would youl do if fire were to break out In this! building?" The children all repeated; in chorus, "We would rise in our! places, step into the aisle, and march quietly out of the building." On thai morning when Mr. Mabie visited the-school, the-school, while he was sitting quietly on the platform, the teacher stepped before be-fore the pupils and said, "Children, what would you say if I were to tell you that Mr. Mabie Is to speak to you-, this morning?" The children prompt-' Jy replied in chorus, "We would rise-in rise-in our places, step into the aisle, and-march and-march quietly out of the building." |