AN IMPOSSIBILITY.
“ There were two men pot into a fight in front of the store," said a North-end man at the supper table, “ and I tell you it looked pretty hard for one of them. The bigger one grabbed a cart stake and drew it back, I thought sure he was going to knock the other’s brains out, and I jumped in between them.” The family had listened with rapt attention, and as the head passed in his narrative the young heir, whose respect for his father's bravery was immeasurable, proudly remarked — “ He could’t knock’any brains out of you, could he father ? ” The head of the family gazed long and earnestly at the heir, as if to detect evidences of a dawning humorist, but as the youth continued with great innocence to munch his fourth tart, ho gasped and resumed his supper.—“Rockland Courier.”
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1689, 19 July 1879, Page 4
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143AN IMPOSSIBILITY. Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1689, 19 July 1879, Page 4
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