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Philanthropos was at a public meeting one evening,
where the heat was distressing, and, observing a lady on
a seat in front of him who appeared to be suffering from
excessive warmth, he went out and bought a large fan,
which he delicately set in motion, as if fanning himself,
while he made every effort to give her the benefit of the
artificial breeze, becoming himself additionally heated
from the exertion he made, losing all interest in the
concert from his intentness in the benevolent action, and
smiling to himself with the belief that his kindness was
felt without its source being known. He was thus
benevolently happy, until he heard the lady tell her
husband to go and shut down that odious window behind
her, for she had felt cold on her neck all the evening
from the east wind. Philanthropos went out and sold
the fan for seven cents that he had given a quarter for
an hour before.

An editor having stated in his paper that he had been
presented with a number of varieties of plumbs, old
Roger declared his preference for the perpendicular.

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