The Englishman's Wit

There was an Englishman balling from Huil on this side the water recently looking at America, and, oí conrse, he carne to Washington. He was a large man, weighing not less than 250 pounds and risiug to a height of at least 6 feet 3 inches. He was, for an Englishman not yet Americanized, quite chatry and affable, after the ice was broken, albeit just a wee bit slow of wit. "I'm a Huil ehipbuilder, " he was saying to a Yankee iiewspaper man in a email party of journalists who were blowing him oB to a lew rationa, wei and dry, at a foundry where such things are nianuiactnred. "Of course yon are," responded the Yankee as be measured his huge proportions and sruiled. ' ' Yon conld scarcely make us believe yon were only part of one, don 't you know." Those in hearing laughed, and the Knglishman looked at the Yankee with a puzzled, yearning expressiou on his broad and honest face. "Keally," he pleaded, "I beg yonr pardon." And then before international complications could arise somebody called on the Englishman for a speech or somethins and the Yankee joker got away. -