After dinner stories by famous men : . hose featureswere familiar to him. What brought you here,my poor fellow ? he asked. You married me to a new woman a little whileago, sir, the prisoner replied, with a sigh. Ah, I see, said the parson; and slie wasdomineering and extravagant, and she drove youto desperate courses, eh ? No/ said the prisoner, my old woman turnedup. Bv Famous !Men 81 JOHN MASOX, the cipable actor ofstrong, quiet roles,relates that sometime ago while stay-ing in a southerntown he visited thecourt one morningwhere the newly-made judge, afriend of his, wns])residing. There was
After dinner stories by famous men : . hose featureswere familiar to him. What brought you here,my poor fellow ? he asked. You married me to a new woman a little whileago, sir, the prisoner replied, with a sigh. Ah, I see, said the parson; and slie wasdomineering and extravagant, and she drove youto desperate courses, eh ? No/ said the prisoner, my old woman turnedup. Bv Famous !Men 81 JOHN MASOX, the cipable actor ofstrong, quiet roles,relates that sometime ago while stay-ing in a southerntown he visited thecourt one morningwhere the newly-made judge, afriend of his, wns])residing. There was muchdisorder because ofan unusually largeattendance. In theconfusion, thejudge, being new to the position, lost his temper. You, there! he cried, ))ointing his finger atan old negro who was standing in front of you the defendant? No, suh, I aint, suh, the darkey emphaticallyreplied. Ise got a lawyer man to do th defend-ing. Tlien wlio are you? his honour demanded. de genlemun dat stole de chickens, camethe calm DAVID R. FRANCIS, while governor of Mis-souri, was once down in the timber lands of south-ern Mississippi with a few friends on a hunting 82 After Dinner Stories trip. Tlic party founrl more mosquitoes tlmn any-tliiii^ else, and finally, stung to desperation andexasperated by the guides indiflerenee to the pest,the governor turned to him with a not very politequery as to how he stood these infernal mos-quitoes. said the guide. Why, Gov-ernor, there aint a mosquito among em. Themsgnats. Ill give you ten dollars if you will lie downon that log with 3our back bared and stay therefor ten minutes/ said Mr. Francis. Soon seeing that the man would win the ten, thegovernor winked at one of his friends, and pro-duced a small sun-glass, which he focused on aspot between the shoulders of the prostrate man. A few moments later the muscles on the guidesback began to twitch just a little, then he began tosquirm a trifle. Finally he raised his head
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