"What's the matter, old fellow?" he said,
as they met the morning after, relates Lon
don lit Bits
"I feel blue
"But last night you n ere the jolhest mem
ber of the party.'
"I felt jolly/
"You acted like a boy just let out of
school."
"I felt like one."
"You said your wife had gone away for
the first time in three jears, and there
wasn't anon to say a word if jou went
home and kicked over the mantle clock."
"I remember it."
"You said that if you stayed out until
four o'clock there was no one to look at you
reproachfully and sigh and make jou feel
small
"Yes, and I stayed out until four o'clock,
didn't I?"
"You certainly did
"An I gave a war-whoop on the door
step?"d
"Yes and then you sang a verse from a
comic opera song and tried to dance a jig
"Yes and my vife had misted the tiain.
Now go away and leave me. I want to kick
myselt a little more for not taking the pie
wution to get an affidavit from the guard
that she went with the tram
And he gave himself seveial bangs on the
cars and then shook himself till bia Ifair
began to fall out.
BASE NEGLECT OF DUTY.
Some of the Things That Are Ex
pected of Men Who Aspire to
Political Leadership.
