A DELIGHTFUL LISTENER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 1 May 1879, Page 4

A DELIGHTFUL LISTENER.

A «rood story is told of ex-Governor Maeoffio, of.Kantacky, who is a good talker and likes to do moat of the talkies himielf. Reeenily, in making the journey from Cincinnati to Lexington, be shared the seat in the car with a bright-eyed, pleasant-faced gentleman. The Governor after a few common place remsrkf, to which bia companion smiled and nodded assent, branched into a description of the scenes he had witnesses in diffarent pans of the coon try, grew eloquent over the war, described with glowing speech the numerous horse-races be bad witnessed, talked learnedly of breeding, and told thrilling stories of bis battles with 'the- Indians in the North West. The hours slipped rapidly away, and when the train was nearing Lexington, tfae two exchanged cards, and parted with a cordial shake of the bands. The Governor drove to an inn, and to a number of friends remarked tbat the ride never seemed so short before.

" Then you must have bad pleasant company aboard ?"

'• You ar« right, I met a gentleman of unusual intelligence. We conversed al! (he way over. I ne?er waa brought into contact with a more agreeable man "

" Indeed ! Who was he ? " asked his friends.

'• Wait a minute ; I have bis card," and the Governor felt in his pooketa and produced the bit of pasteboard. "His name is King/

" Mot Bob King ? " shouted a dozen in one breath.

" Ye*, getlemen, Robert King— that is the way the card reads," was the proud reply.

A roar of laughter followed. 11 Why, Governor, Bob King is as deaf as a post. He waa born deaf and dumb ! "