The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1909-11-22
WATSON TELLS
A STORY
D. LADDOI ~
Copyright, by j. b. Lippincott Coz
By J. L. HARBOUR

Copyright. by j. b. Lippncott Coz
Watson likes to tell a story, and he
is aware of the fact that he tells one
uncommonly well when he can tell
it 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 i'll his
| best storytelling mood and he had a
capital new story to tell He was sure
that no one at the table but Mrs. Wat
son had heard it, He awaited his
opportunity, and during a lull in the
/ general conversation he began with:
"Oh. by the way, | heard capital
little story at the club the other eve
ming 1t 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.
No. my dear, it was Dwight who
told me- He said"
Il am quite sure that you said it
was Harry Ross who told you the
story when you told me Is it the
story about the two Jews at dinner
party, and one OF them"
Yes, yes, it is that story, and
Dwight said that"
Il remember very distinctly that
you said it was MI Ross. You know
you said that he"
Well, well, perhaps | did say Ross
when | meant Dwight. Ross was
present But it don't matter which
one told the story"
of course not, only it is best to be
accurate"
Dwight said that"
You mean Ross
Well, Ross said that couple of
Sheenys we're
Don't say 'Sheenys, dear, it sounds
SO disrespectful."
q don't mean any disrespect
and"
1T is always best to say what one
means. and 'Sheeny is not only dis
respectful, but it is vulgar"
We'll, these two Jews, Goldstein
and Rosenbaum, We're at "a dinner
party, and
You said their names were Schloss
and Strauss when you told me the
story.
oh, the names don't matter"
Il suppose not, but, as | say. it is
best to be accurate"
Dwight said that these Jews were
at dinner-party, and
Il thought it was a public banquet,
dear?" said Mrs Watson, gently.
oh, we'll what's the difference?
Anyhow"
There is a coed deal of difference
between a dinner party and public
banquet"
Very we'll. call it a banquet, then"
II wouldn't if it wasn't banquet"
"Anhow, there were solid silver
spoons on the table, and"
Then it must have been a dinner
party. One never sees solid silver at
public banquet"
uiuu say II wa d puDIIt DiI'
quet"
Il didn't say that you did, my dear
boy"
Well, the point of the story is that
during the progress of the dinner
Goldstein took one of the solid silver
spoons and slipped it 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, it wasn't that way. You are
getting ahead of the story. When you
told it to me you said"
am telling it Just as Dwight told
it to me He said"
Don't you remember that you said
Dwight said-only it was Ross-that
Goldsten-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, i"
no. no. no, 1t was Eosenbaum
who said that when he got u spoon a
little later He said"
1T don't seem to me that that was
the way of it, | am quite sure that"
What she was quite sure of re-
mains mystery to this day, for at
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 Ill
vulge what Watson said to his wife
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