A Chip of the Old Block.
Reading edition
Ex-Postmaster-General Frank Hatton has a fourteen-year-old son who resembles his distinguished father in many particulars.
“Pa,” said he the other day, “I’ve made up my mind where I would like to go to college.”
“Aha,” replied his father; “and where is it, my boy?”
“To Vassar,” said the precocious child.
“Humph!” ejaculated the proud father: “darned if I wouldn’t like to go there myself!”
We understand that Professor Thomas DeQuincey Smythe, the gifted littérateur who edited the famous Chicago edition of Browning’s poems, with copious notes, has recently invented a wonderful powder for removing fleas from pet cats and dogs.
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