ASSUMED IGNORANCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 7 February 1907, Page 37

ASSUMED IGNORANCE.

One day when Artemus Ward was travelling a man appijoaehed him> in the train, sat dawn, and said : 1 Did you hear the last thing on Horace Greeley 3 ' ' Greeley ? Greeley ? ' said, Artemus ; ' Horace Greeley ? Who is he?.' — The man was quiet about five minutes. Pretty soon he said \ • , ■ ■ ' George Francis Train Ss kicking, up a good deal of a row o'veir in England.^ Do you think they will put - him in a bastile ? ' 1 Train ?'- Train ? George Francis^ Train ? ' said Artemus, solemnly. '-I never heard of him.' This ignorance kept the man quiet about fifteen minutes£ Then he said : ... • c What do" you think about GeneraljK-rant's chances for the Presidency ? Do you tlAnk. they'll run him ? ' "- ' Grant ? Grant ? Hang it, man ! ' said Ward, 'you -appear to know more strangers than any man I ever saw.' '• , The man was furious. He walked off, but at last came and said :< - , c You confounded ignoramus, did you ever- hear of Adam ? ' : : - Artemus *, looked up and said : ' Adam ? What was hia other name ? ' '.'''•