The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 15

THE SUNDAY CALL. COPYRIGHT 1899 AN BY SL.CLEMENS ALL RIGHTS Ay B \ RESERVED I W & CARLYLE KEPT BRICGKS™ (28 FOR THE AMERICANS "BUTHE WAS NOT A GOOD SHOT™ b 5 ot ‘1TOLD THE POLICE TH 7 THE SAME FOMIS % o (ot FE R AS THE PRIN T b A M n Austria last year. I do not know what that the police had misunderstood me, but Interest of the growing friendly relations ave become of me if I ha hap- as long as I had not told any lle I knew between the two countries. 1 must keep pened to remember to tell the police that there was no occasion to sit up nights some of my self-respect. And my health. I belonged to the same family as the and worry about it.” I can live on a pretty low diet, but I can’t Prince of Wales. That made everything =~ My friend struggled with the case for get along on no sustenance at all pleasant and they let me go; and apolo- ' several minutes, turning it over and ex- Of course, there are times when these Eized, too, and were ever so kind ‘and amining it in his mind, then he said that people have to come out with a spoken Obiiging and polite, and couldn’t do too so far as he could see the modification lfe, for that is a thing which happens to Much for me, and explained how the mis- Was itself a lle, it being a misleading a while, and would ke came to be made, and promised to Teservation of an explanatory fact, and so if they came down hang the officer that did-it, and hoped I I had told two lies instead of o would let bygones be bygones and not say “I wouldn t have done it,” sald he; “I anything about it; and I said they could have never told a lie, and I should be 1 on me. My friend said, austerely: very sorry to do such a thing.” ou call it a modified lie? Where is Just then he lifted his hat and emiled a everybody once in happen to the ange!l here much. Parti rly to the fact, for the lles I speak of are rificing ones told for a genero not a mean one; t even when thes ple tell a lie of it it sec the modification?” basketful of surprised and delighted them and unse their minds. It is a T explained that it lay in the form of Smiles down at a gentleman who was wonderful thing to see, and shows that my statement to the police. pas: they are all insane. In fact, it is a coun- *I didn’t say 1 belonged to the royal try which is full of the most interesting family; I only said I belonged to the same 'L don't know. | superstitions. family as the Prince—meaning the human . Then Why did you do that?” FU 1 have an English friend of twenty-five family, of course; and if those people haq - Because I saw he thought he knew BASKETFUL years' standing, and yesterday when o had any penetration they would haye ™S Ahd Was expecting it of me.' If I . 't done it he wouw have b 5 OF SURPRISED . were coming downtown on top of the bus known it. I can’t go around furnishing :‘?l?:n"l i i anbarrab hiis b:“rzr:ml;‘e i / I happened to tell him a lie. A modifieq brains to the police; it Is not to be ex- whole street.” DELGHTED g one, of course; a half-breed, a mulatto; Ppected.” “Well, your heart was right, G.. and > SMILE 1 can't seem to tell any other kind now, “How did vou feel after that perform. JOUF 8ct was right. What you did was S the market is so flat. I was explaining to ance?" OTM- kindly and courteous and beautiful. I voul t myself; as & him how 1 got out of an embarrassment “Well, of course I was distressed to find l‘;e.!" Srpsbaelitebat o o R bl TRE-TATHER 1OF ¢ HIS CounTry