The Dumb Man's Joke.
Jones was sauntering about at the National Gallery, and chanced to meet a friend, a deaf mute, who waji conversing with a companion in aign language. Greeting Jonea cordially, the deaf mute drew out a notebook and pencil, and, after a brief pencil ; li4 paper converaation, introduced hia6bm% panion by the aame meana, and shortly after withdretf*. Jones and the stranger disonued the pictures pleasantly for twenty minutes orihore, meanwhile covering the backa of sundry envelopes and scraps of paper with their pencillings, when a fourth oharacter in this drama came upon the scene—a friend of Jones'a new-made acquaintance. ' Hallo, George !' eaid the dumb man to the new-comer, familiarly. ' Row do you like the picturea this year ?' •By Jove 1' exclaimed Jonea, in surprise ; ' can you talk ?' * Well, I should think so,' said the gentleman, equally surprised, as he hastily put away pencil and paper. ' Aren't you deaf and dumb ?' 'Not I,' Jonea replied, thruating into hia pocket an envelope nearly covered with pencil marks; 'but I'll kill that Dummy next time I see him.'
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2293, 5 January 1900, Page 3
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