The log cabin Democrat., 1909-11-10
WATSON TELLS
 A STORY
Copyright, by J. B. Lippincott Co)
By ]. L. HARBOUR

Copyright, by J. B. Lippincott Co) Watson likes to tell story, and he fs aware of the fact that he tells one oncommonly we'll when he can tell 1t in his own way. But this privilege ia 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 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 luil in the general conversation he began with: "Oh. by the way. I heard capital little story at the club the other eve hing. It is new Hebrew story Charley Dwight told me. He said that"
 Why, Mir Watson, l thought it was Harry Ross who told you that story" interrupted Mrs Watson
 No, my dear, it was Dwight who told me. He said"
 q am quite sure that you said II was Harry Ross wAo tod y,a t.' story when you tod me. l5 1t tlo story about the two Jews at dinner party. and one of them"
 Yes, yes, it is that story and Dwight said that
 T remember very distinctly that you said it was Mir Ross. You know you said that he
 Well. we'll perhaps I did say Ross when l 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
 Yoa mean Ross.
 Well. Ross said ta>t a couple of Sheenys were
 Don't say 'Sheenys. dear. it sounds so dislespectiul.
 T don't mean any disrespect, and"
 Tt is always best to say what one means. and Sheeny is not only dis respectful, but it is vulgar.
 Well. these two Jews, Goldstein and Rosenbaum, were at dinner party, and
 You said their names were Schloss and Strauss when you told me the story
 'Oh, the names don't natter
 T suppose not, but, as say. it is best to be accurate.
 Dwight said that these Jews were at dinnerparty. and
 q thought it was a public banquet, dear?" said Mrs Watson, gently.
 oh well, what's the difference? Anyhow"
 There is a good deal of difference between dinuerparty and a public banquet"
 Very we'll call it banquet. then T wouldn't it wasn't a 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 a public banquet"
 "I didn't say it was public ban quet."
 T 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"
 'I don't see how he could have done that unobserved, remarked Mrs Wat, son.
 He did, according to the way the story goes, and"
 "It don't seem reasonable"
 Lots of good stories are unreason. able Rosenbaum saw GoldStein put the spoon into his shoe. and
 on it wasn't that way. You are getting ahead of the story When you told it to me you said"
 I am telling it just as Dwight told 1t to me He said"
 Don't you remember that you said Dwight said-only it was Boss-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. r."
 No no, no, It was Rosenbaum who said that when he got spoon a little later He said"
 "It don't seem to me that that was the way of it. I am quite sure that What she was quite sure of re mains a 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 di. vulge what Watson said to his wife on their homeward way.
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