She Was Her Own Self

A gentleman who has a telephone u bis house has in his einploy a íuithful butstupid, Gerinan girl, who ono daj responded to the ringing of the telephone bell. "Who is there?" came over tlie wire "It is I," replied Katrina. "And who is I?" "Why, lamí." "But who is I?" came over the wire, "I am me, mv own self," retoited iatriua. "How should I be anybodj but me?" "But who are you?" "I am my owuself." "What is your name?" "Ka trina Rupper." "Well, who is Katriua Rupper?" "She isme, my own self." And wlien Katrina heard laughter at the other end of the line she said, inlignantly : "I vill uot stliay here to be made a shoke of," and she walked away from he teleplione, grumbling: "How could '. be any one but me? I let 'em know