HE KNEW HOW TO PICK THEM.
The orchestra was playing loudly in one of the restaurants in Deliver during the Democratic National Convention, and the diners were talking loudly.'so they might hear and be hoard. At one table sat a beautiful woman and her escort, and at the next table a number of Tammany men.
Suddenly, the orchestra stopped, bing! and a Tammany man's voice rang out: "By George, that's a goodlooking w.moan; I'd like to meet her."
The man at' the next table, who was with tho lady, came over, tapped the Tammany man on the shoulder and said frigidly: "Sir, that lady is my wife." '
"Shake," said the. Tammany .man; "I am glad to meet you. You certainly area good picker." And hostilities were averted.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 6
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127HE KNEW HOW TO PICK THEM. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 6
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