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Evening Star, Issue 14512, 2 November 1910, Page 3

UNWELCOME NOTORIETY. “Gracious! That’s a. poach of a black eye. Where did you get it?” ' ‘Got it on the left side oi my nose. Where did you think I got it—over the ankle bone?” “ Don’t get heated. How did it happen?” “ Thai’s different. It was all a piece of my confounded tough luck. I was up on the Blue Cliff road looking at a piece of real estate, -when along came a coatless and bareheaded fellow running for dear life with a lot of panting pursuers stretching in a long line behind him. I joined in the chase. Being fresh. I rapidly overhauled the fugitive. I had nearly collared him,when a big ruffian grabbed mo and profanely told me to clear out. I spoke rudely to him and kept on miming, and he sud-i dcnly reached out a fist like a ham and knocked mo into the ditch. And what do you suppose it all was?” “ Give it up.” “ It was a rehearsal for a moving-picture film; and now my portrait will go all over the country and bo seen in thousands of theatres as a bruised and battered butter-in who got just what was coming to him!” Agriculturist (to season ticket-holder in train): “ You don’t have no ticket?” Ticket-holder’: “No ; I travel on my gocd looks.” Agriculturist: “ Then probably you ain’t going very far.”