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LOST, STOLEN, OR STRAYED.

Tho sale’of the late Andrew Lang’s ■•library has recalled several stories told about him.

■Ho once went to stay at a friend's house, and on the morning after his arrival ho was .surprised to find, when ho came to put them on, that his trousers and several other articles of clothing woro missing. Tie called his host to ask whether any of his clothes had been removed during the night, but his iriend was as mystified as himself. They worried around for some time until his host happened to displace the pillow on the bed. “ Why, hero are your clothes!” he exclaimed, fishing them out from underneath the pillow. Then Mr. Lang remembered that when he went to bed ho had found the pillow too low for him and had raised it by putting some of his clothes underneath 1 NO REST. “George,” she asked, “if we were young and single again, would you want me to be your wife?” " Now, my dear,” he absent-mindedly replied, “ what’s the use of trying to start a quarrel just as we have settled down to onjoy a quiet evening ?”

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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

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LOST, STOLEN, OR STRAYED. Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

LOST, STOLEN, OR STRAYED. Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

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