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without even removing tlie jug from his mouth. 

 So it would really appear there is no accounting 

 for wide throats and big swallows. 



Here are two amusing stories of a noted farmer 

 in a small way, called John of Cautley. 



One day, a tramp kind of man called at his 

 house to beg, saying he had no money, and that 

 he was hungry, 



John, eyeing him over, asked, " How is it thou 

 hasn't anything ? Thou looks young and strong 

 enough to work." 



The man explained that he was walking to 

 Lancaster in search of a job he had heard of. 



John, in his good nature, thereupon called to 

 his wife, "Mary, bring this man a loaf of bread, 

 he says he is varra hungry." Mary did as she 

 was bid, and the tramp departed, evidently very 

 thankful. Just after leaving the house, he was 

 seen to throw the loaf over the bridge into a 

 stream running below. John saw this, and at 



