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Jests Home
AT a dinner-party, one of the guests used his knife improperly in
eating. At length a wag asked aloud: Have you heard of poor L----'s sad
affair? I met him at a party yesterday, when to our great horror, he
suddenly took up the knife, and---- Good heavens! interposed one of
the ladies; and did he cut his throat?--Why no, answered the
relator, he did not cut his throat with his knife; but we all expected
he would, for he actually put it up to his mouth.
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