GOOD PRAYER.

A WITTY lawyer once jocosely asked a boarding-house keeper the following

question:

"Mr. ----, if a man gives you five hundred dollars to keep for him, and

he dies, what do you do? Do you pray for him?"

"No, sir," replied ----, "I pray for another like him."

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