The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-14

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make you see double. Ready? All !
right; here goes:
"Once upon a time old Mother Ma
tuTe was in a 1ovfa1 mood and pro-
ceeded to lay herself out to have some
fun at the expense of us poor mortals.
So, when it came time to send a stork
to a certain chimney, she sent two.
Legend has it that the bundles they
carried were so exactly alike that even
the storks got them mixed up on the
way. At any rate, when the doctor
and the nurse opened the bundles they
made haste to tie a red flannel rag
about the neck of the contents of the
first. Thereafter, as / am creditably
informed, 1t was a case of red flannel
rag or confusion with everyone ex-
cept the mother. Here the mother love
taught in some mysterious way to tell
her twin son apart. But the father,
after giving medicine several times to
the well twin and spanking the tenn
porarily angelic twin, gave UP the job
In despair. In revenge he named the
first bundle James Adams and the Sec
ond John Agnew, that they might both
write their names ]. A. Chivington
and thus still further infict a suffering
community. Their mother dressed
them alike, and thus equipped these
twins set out upon a career of comedy
that was very close to tragedy.
When they burst in all their glory
upon an astonished college world there
were high jinks. They passed their
examinations as one man. the indig-
nant professors refusing to waste time
on the same freshman twice. When
the true inwardness of the situation
became understood there was joy un-
feigned in old South Hall. One tuition
fee for the college and the other for
beer money! One twin to call on the
president for religious advice and the
other to simultaneously cut b chapel
bell rope or spike shut a recitation
room door or To perform without pos
the rest of us could %concoct! TWO
souls with but a single body, two
hearts that beat as ley to TAX
ing turns at rotations!
Later on these marvellous twins
won for the United States of America
the great and glorious victory of San
Juan-for when they charged side by
side up that hi toric hill in the ranks
of the Rough Riders, the poor Span
iards thought that all our museum
freaks had been turned loose on them,
and fed in a panic.
"And when Jim, the other one, met
his beloved Bessie Lee he never dared
go to see her except when Jack, here,
was safely out of town. But l grow
loQuacious. Here's to The Twins-for
they're a jolly good fellow!"
"Why do you claim to be Mr.. Jim
when Cousin Tom says you are Mr..
Jack?" murmured Lucy Manners
voice in the twins ear as they sat
down to rest outside the ball room,
where the Christmas festivities were
drawing to a hilarious close. 1t was a
dim and shadowy nook, and a bunch
of mistletoe hung suggestively near.
"In self-defense,'' answered the
TWILL GNOW1 IL 4 WO1O JAIN
eff you were Jack" repeated the girl
after him, mockingly, flashing mis-
chief put of alluring eyes.
I'D do this'-here he swept her I'M
der the mistletoe-"and this'-and he
kissed her on the lips.
ct love you. Lucy, will you be my
oh, / forgot" and the Chivington
Twin came to a dead stop and looked
as foolish as might be expected of a
lover pulled up short in the middle OF
a speech like this.
Forgot what-the point?"' laughed
Lucy Manners, her face all alight with
delight and mischief.
why, I've got to confess first, Lucy
I'm the other twin. I'm Jack"
81 should hope so! I don't want any
heart-broken Bessie on my con
science"
81 mean Tnl-I mean it was really
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