Racial Repartee

A Swede and an Irishman, both of them tolera bly wel] known about town, got into an argument in front of the courthouse, and theybegan telling each other how it was too bad that theix ancestors had ever happened to shed the wolf robes and take to living under cover. When things got a bit warm, the Swede remarked that there was no doubt in his rnind that the Irishman would be entitled, by reason of his ancestry, to join some of the pedigree associations but for the unfortunate tact that most of those ancestors were hanged for stealing sheep. "I suppose theydid their sheep stealing with the understanding among themselves that they were all kings, and that it was all right to go over into the next county and steal whatever they could lay their hands on," said the Swede in conclusión. "Yes, an be all accounts," said the Irishman, "your ancestors lived in kingdoms so very small that every time they smelled a stocklish in the yard of a neighbor they jumped over the fence an got it, an if they got back they made a national alïair of it if there was any pursuit. -