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Evening Star, Issue 15909, 15 September 1915, Page 3

PAY BY THE LENGTH OF THE TAIL. On the highway between Dieppe and (Journey, France, there is an interesting wayside inn that never fails to attract the attention of travellers who journey over the road. Nailed over the door of the inn there is a notice that reads: " Horses boarded here; Rates: Horse with a short tail, 50 centimes a day; horse with a long tail, 1 franc." No one could understand a discrimination among horses ba6ed on the length of thoir tails until a reporter for a, Paris paper questioned the proprietor, and later published the explanation in his newspaper. The honest old innkeeper gave an amusing but logical answer to the reporter's question. "Why, that's very simple," he said. " A horse with a short tail is very much bothered by flies and gnats. He is kept so busy driving them off with his head that he naturally cannot eat much. A horse with a l<sig tail does not need to us» his head to keep off flies, but can busy himself eating. In that w*y he eats much mora than th« other. Therefore it i* only logical that I should -charge a higher rati for his board." The innkeeper's argument surely sounds rea6onable. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d. & 6d.—£Advt.]