He Was Not Candid.
Gilhooley applied to Colonel Doolittle for a temporary loan. He Baid : " Ba so kind as to lend me forty dollars." "Look here, my dear friend," said Colonol Doolittle, "if you had approached me in a straightforward candid manner I would have let you have the money, but you addressed me in a manner that causod mo to doubt your honesty." " What do you mean ?'' "You said, ' Be so kind as to lend me forty dollars.'" 1 11 What should I have said ?" J " If you had been a candid man you would ' have said, •Be bo stupid aa to lend me forty dollars."'—Taxas Siftings.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1751, 13 June 1885, Page 28
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