A GREAT CALF.

SIR William B., being at a parish meeting, made some proposals which

were objected to by a farmer. Highly enraged, "Sir," says he to the

farmer, "do you know that I have been at two universities, and at two

colleges at each university?" "Well, sir," said the farmer, "what of

that? I had a calf that sucked two cows, and the observation I made was,

the more he sucked, the greater calf he grew."--_Flowers of Anecdote._

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