Memorabilia 



the ore and makes a rich vein poor. 

 When King had come out of the 

 mine after inspection he found an- 

 other telegram waiting for him from 

 his impatient friend, asking in effect, 

 " Is it true that there is a horse in 

 the mine ? " to which he promptly 

 replied, " The mine is a perfect livery- 

 stable." 



A nervous old lady once found him 

 much too obliging when, having en- 

 tered a crowded railway car, she was 

 about to take the only available 

 vacant seat alongside of King, but, 

 having suddenly spied his gun stand- 

 ing in the corner, she walked the 

 whole length of the car, forth and 

 back, repeatedly, looking for some 

 other seat, and, finding none, re- 

 turned again to King's place, saying 

 severely, " Young man, is that gun 

 loaded ? " to which King instantly 

 replied, with a charming smile, his 

 eye twinkling with merriment at the 

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