Connecticut western news., 1891-10-15
4 COUPLE OF PRACTICAL yokeRs.

And How They Pn; s!p Job on One oi
 Their Friends with a .lort Memory.
 Hello. old |. -:l Fly George, I'm glad to see you, Harold Where have you been all these years2"
 The speaker was {; well dressed young fellow with the air of a man about town, the other had far away look in his eyes and seemed to be dreamer. Both were in evening dress. coming out of Broadway theater between the acts.
 Well, really, sir," answered gentle man No. 3 with dignity, you have the better of me; seem to remember your face, but somehow cannot place you. '"
 What, you don't remember me five years ago when we both belonged to the Scribblers' club2 You don't relneln Der those games of pool when you al ways got stuck"
 II certainly did belong to the Scrib blers' club and used to get stuck there at pool-do yet for that matter but l don't remember you.
 Gentleman No. laughed, but pro- vokingly and consistently refused to disclose his identity.
 No. kept up rattling fire of re1nin iscence, telling his friend so much about his (No. 2's) past life, mentioning names and places in profusion, and giving such a mass of detail that the other could no longer doubt that they had been acquainted somewhere in the past where he could not say.
 This was very aggravating, not to say lnortifying, and yet in vain did No. 2 rack his brain for some clew as to the personality of his torlnentor He began to wonder if he had not struck a confidence man. who would presently broach matters financial and proceed to negotiate loan.
 "Do you remember your trip to Paris in the summer of lSS72" finally asked No. 1.
 'Yes. Did meet you thereY'
 Well, should say SO. Don't you remember taking the Misses W to the opera9 joined you in the box that evening Don't you remember the rackets we, had with George and Billy, and all that. Oh, come now, you must remember that"
 No. 3 shook his head mournfully. II remember all about George and Billy and the Misses W, and all the rest of it, but can't remember you. beg your pardon, but cant. -
 Well, don't you remember our meet ing at Saratoga in lS882 You were there with your cousin. and she and had desperate filtration. See, I've got her picture here in this locket. Now then, Harold. old boy, you must know me-"
 Harold stared at the locket, speech less. There. sure enough, were the ia miliar features of his Cousin Nellie, one of the belles of New York, hanging on the watchchain of this fellow. whom he did not know from Adam.
 Where did you get that picture2"
 Prom Miss Nellie herself, of course see, here is the inscription she had put there, Nellie to George, 1989.'
 Gentleman No. 9 was thunderstruck This was really too much. not to re member the tiance of his own cousin He was overcome with confusion, anc there is no telling how much further things might have gone had not two other young fellows approached at tha' moment holding their sides with laugh ter. They were the identical Georgt and Billy referred to
 Harold, old man" said George when he had recovered his gravity ''let me introduce our excellent friend MT. Henry -, who never was 1T Paris in his life, and who never be longed to the Scribblers club, and wht detests pool, and who very ilnproperl. borrowed this locket from me to put ul 1 a job on you. See2" New York Her a16