AN ARTFUL REQUEST.

A GENTLEMAN traveling from Paris to Calais, was accosted by a man

walking along, who begged the favor of him to let him put his great coat

in his carriage. "With all my heart," said the gentleman, "but if we

should be going different ways, how will you get your great coat?"

"Sir," answered the other, with apparent _naivete_, "I shall be in it."