After dinner stories by famous men : . tie that rope tight! Icant swnn, and I dont want to drown 14 After Dinner Stories DAVID BELASCO, play-wright ;\m\ theatrical maii-n^cr, tells this tale of the(lays when he was a iiews-))aper re|)orter. While soemployed he put in a fewdays with a gang oftramps in order to get colour for an article heliad been assigned to write. I found the hobos tobe a merry lot, with asmany stories as the endman of a minstrel of them told in myhearing of being given amince-pie by the youngwife of a farmer. Next day the tramp appearedat the farmhouse again and sai
After dinner stories by famous men : . tie that rope tight! Icant swnn, and I dont want to drown 14 After Dinner Stories DAVID BELASCO, play-wright ;\m\ theatrical maii-n^cr, tells this tale of the(lays when he was a iiews-))aper re|)orter. While soemployed he put in a fewdays with a gang oftramps in order to get colour for an article heliad been assigned to write. I found the hobos tobe a merry lot, with asmany stories as the endman of a minstrel of them told in myhearing of being given amince-pie by the youngwife of a farmer. Next day the tramp appearedat the farmhouse again and said, Would you bekind enough, maam, to give me the recipe for thatthere mince-pie what I had liere yesterday ? * Well, the idea! cried the farmers wife.* Land sakes, man, what do you want that recipefor? To settle a bet, replied the tramp. Mypartner says you use tliree cups of Portland Ce-ment to one of molasses, but I claim its only twoand a half. PROF. BRANDER MATTHEWS, speaking jok-ingly of his age, says that he trusts he is not yet. By Famous JMen 15 so old that the students can play the trick on himhe once saw turned on a senior professt)r in his owncollege days. Professor Blank was our most venerable in-structor in those days, and he could be just a littleirritable at times. On one occasion, noticing,thatone member of the class who sat right under hiseye never took any notes nor paid the slightest at-tention to his lectures, he stopped the class abruptlyand demanded, See here, young man, what do you mean bycoming into my classroom day after day and nevertaking notes? * I have my fathers, was the complacentreply. EX-GOVERNOR VARDAMAN, of ^Mississippi,was a recent candidate for a seat in the UnitedStates Senate. On one occasion during his tourof the State he expressed his sentiments regardingtlie repeal of the Fourteenth Amendment and wasloudly a))i)lauded by an old coloured man standingon the outskirts of the crowd. Is shorely fer dat man, said the old negro. I shorely is. ^
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