After dinner stories by famous men : . your ^Majesty, with thesymptoms of concussion of the brain — began thedoctor. But I am perfectly familiar with the symp-toms of concussion, I interrupted. I am astonished/ replied the good doctor. Let me prove my knowledge/ I said. If,for example, I banged my head terrifically againstyours, would we not both suffer concussion of thebrain ? ? Pardon me, sire, he replied, I think that Imight. I did not punish him for lese-majesty/ laugh-ingly concludes the Emperor, richly as he de-served it. SENATOR LA EOLLETTE, criticising a trust,said: Its dignity under a
After dinner stories by famous men : . your ^Majesty, with thesymptoms of concussion of the brain — began thedoctor. But I am perfectly familiar with the symp-toms of concussion, I interrupted. I am astonished/ replied the good doctor. Let me prove my knowledge/ I said. If,for example, I banged my head terrifically againstyours, would we not both suffer concussion of thebrain ? ? Pardon me, sire, he replied, I think that Imight. I did not punish him for lese-majesty/ laugh-ingly concludes the Emperor, richly as he de-served it. SENATOR LA EOLLETTE, criticising a trust,said: Its dignity under abuse and attack is, some-how, funny. It reminds me of a little Sioux Citygirl. One morning she hung about the kitchen con-tinually liothering the busy cook to death. Thecook lost i)atitnce finally. Clear out o here, yesassy little brat! she sliouted, thumping the tablewith a rolling-jiin. TIic little girl gave the oook a haughty look. I never .-illow any one but my mother to speak tome like that, she said. 90 After Dinner Stories. Copyright. Cliiwdirist SENATOR MILES POINDEXTER, from outSpokane way, Washington, wliile attending a ban-quet given by the business mens association ofhis city not long ago, delivered a brief address ontimely topics, and he concluded it with this storywhich, judging from the way it was received,struck a sympatlietic chord among a number ofthose present. A man of threescore and ten, who had pros-pered in business for many years, decided to takeliis son in partnership with him. The young manfully appreciated the move, but in his newly addeddignity, as time advanced, he became inclined todisregard some of the old gentlemans ideas asfogy, and to take things into his own hands. His By Famous INIen 97 father, however, remonstrated: Look here, An-drew, said he one morning, lets have a littleless I and a little more We in this businesshereafter. You want to remember that you arethe junior partner. A few days later the young man appeared atliis fathers offic
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