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Budget. | that being the accepted length of his breath. ‘THE reporter's special work was interviewing. Whenever any well-known person from abroad started for our shores he was invariably sent down the harbor loaded with ques- | tions on the foreigner’s impressions of our marvelous country. Well, on Tuesday morning he was assigned to interview an eminent Westerner lately arrived. The reporter's knock at the stranger's door was answered | by a cheerful * come in.” He was a clever ‘When he had a Sometimes But it was MR. Benjamin James was a solicitor. man, and he was also a clever solicitor. case in hand he either lost it or else he won it. it was the one way, and sometimes the other. usually the former. As there were two possibilities to the conclusion of any action, so he had two forms of announcing the results to his clients. If he was successful he wrote : THE AERONAUTICAL ANNUAL, 183. Edited by james Means. Boston: W. B, Clarke and Com- pany. Hal{-Hours with an Old Golfer. By**Calarno Cur- rente.” London: George Bell and Sons. Prince Henry, the Navigator. By CR. Beazley. New York and London: G. P, Putnam's Sons. woidng, Ferrater. By Clement Wilkes. New Vork jagemann, The Poems of Henry Abbey. Kingston, New York Henry Abbey. On India's Frontier. By Henry Ballantine, M. A. “called to apologize for our weather,” began the man of the press, He marveled at his own impromptu cleverness, sir: The Westerner smiled, ‘* Don't be disturbed,” he said. this action, “To be sure, out in lowa —” * You are from lowa ?” the reporter interrupted. “Yes.” “Indeed! And how do you like America ?"—Boston Siw: this action, IT was night. The wind swept down the deserted street in fitful gusts, and inky blackness covered the sky. 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