The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-06-19
WATSON TELLS
A STORY
RxLL. HARROl
Copyright. by J. B. LippIncott Coz
BY ]. L. HARBOUR

Watson likes to tell story. and he
is aware of the fact that he tells one
uncommonly well when he can tell
II in his own way But this privilege
is not always accorded him when
Mrs. Watson is around. and she was
with him at a delightful little dinner
party the Rayburns were giving the
other evening Watson was In his
best storytelling mood and he had .
capital new story to tell. He was sure
that no one at the table but Mrs. Wat
son had heard II. He awaited his
opportunity, and during lull In the
general conversation he began with,
"Oh, by the way, heard capital
little story at the club the other owe
ming. II is a new Hebrew story
Charley Dwight told me. He said
| that"
why, Mr.. Watson. thought It
was Harry Ross who told You that
story" interrupted Mrs. Watson.
mo. my dear. 1t was Dwight who.
told me. He said"
Il am quite sure that you said II
was Harry Ross who told You the
story when you told me. Is II the
story about the two Jews at dinner
party, and one OF them"
Yes. yes. II ia that story. and
Dwight said that"
Il remember very distinctly that
you said II was Mr.. Ross. You know
you said that he"
"Well. well, perhaps / did say Ross
when | meant Dwight Ross was
present. But 1t don't matter which
one told the story"
"Of course not, only II is best to be
accurate"
Dwight said that"
You mean Ross"
well, Ross said that couple Of
Sheenys were"
Don't say 'sheenys.' dear, IT sounds
so disrespectful."
II don't mean any disrespect,
and"
1T is always best to say what one
means, and 'sheeny' is not only dis-
respectful, but 1t is vulgar"
We'll, these two Jews, Goldsteiu
and Rosenbaum. were at a dinner
party. and"
you said their names were Schloas
and Strauss when you told me the
story"
"Oh, the names don't matter"
II suppose not. but, as say. It 10
best to be accurate"
Dwight said that these Jews were
at a dinner-party, and"
Il thought It was public banquet,
dear?" said Mrs. Watson, gently.
"oh, well. what's the differencer
Anyhow"
There is a good deal Of difference
between dinner-party and public
banquet"
Very well, call 1t banquet, then"
Il wouldn't II II wasn't banquet"
"Anhow, there were solid silver
spoons on the table, and"
Then 1t must have been a dinner
party. One never sees solid silver ut
a public banquet"
Il didn't say it was a public ban
quet.'
II didn't say that you did, my dear
boy"
| We'll, the point Of the story is that
during the progress of the dinner
Goldstein took one of the solid silver
spoons and slipped 1t into his shoe,
and"
II don't see how he could have done
that unobserved," remarked Mrs. Wat
son.
He did. according to the way the
story goes, and"
1T don't seem reasonable"
Lots of good stories are unreason-
able. Rosenbaum saw Goldstein put
the spoon into his shoe, and"
| "Oh, II wasn't that way. You are
getting ahead of the story. When you
told 1t to me you said"
II am telling 1t just as Dwight told
1t to me. He said"
Don't you remember that you said
Dwight said-only II was Ross-that
Goldstein--only I'm quite confident
you said the name was Strauss-that
he said before putting the spoon into
his shoe: Ladies and gentle
men. -
mo, no. no! II was Rosenbanm
who said that when he got spoon a
little later He said"
1T don't seem to me that that was
the way OF 1t. I am quite sure that
What she was quite sure" Of re-
mains mystery to this day. for Mt
that moment the hostess gave the sig
nal for the guests to rise. and the
story Watson had privately re.
hearsed In his room was never told,
and this is no place In which to di-
vulge what Watson said to his wife
on their homeward way.
Potatoes Keep We'll in Coke.