The Idiot

his breakfast. "This isn't Friday mor

ay," put in the

reat, is it?" observed the Idiot, t

sir," returned the goo

r Mrs. Pedagog. I thought from its resistance that it was fried

can't see what you want," sa

the Idiot, suavely. "That is,

ter to the landlady, whose ire was so very much aroused that s

usy of Mr. Pedagog would redound to the discomfort of all of us. Besides, I really do not object to the liver. I need

silence fo

y it is Friday is fish-day all over the world, anyhow? Do you happen to be l

ian, gruffly. "I've never

ff and fish all day, and have no luck-don't catch a thing. You fall in the water perhaps, and lose your watch, or your fish-hook catches in your coat-tails, with the result that you come near casting yourself instead of the

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to jail overnight, and hauled up the next morning, and have to pay ten dollars fine for

lculations," returned Mr. Pedag

e, and let him be fined for poaching on somebody else's preserves-although that's so

last Sunday night," said

bliomaniac had taken," he added, turning to the genial gentleman who occa

fer?" asked the Bi

ress me further, please, because we like you, old fellow

it," said the Bibliomaniac, savagely. "I don't want any nonsense,

I were rather pained on Sunday night to observe that you-that you had evidently

ac. "How did I show it? That's what I want to know. How-did

ent up-stair

sir, I

all, and while we were talking there you put your head over th

you replied, 'Mr. A

u asked, 'Who are

did. Wh

a charitable construction on the matter and say it was the peaches,

, jumping from his chair. "You

d the Idiot, "

sued he could be heard throwing things about in the chamber overhead, and in a very few moments the banging

EARD THROWING

at way. He'll be uncomfortable all day long, and over what? Just because I attempted to say a good word for him, and announ

is fish business," cont

the Doctor, impatiently.

e'll let that go. I never cared for the finny tribe myself, and if Mrs. Pedagog can be induced