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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
How I lost palette and patron.
A long farewell.
Visitor: "Why what in the world are you doing with that umbrella?"
Host: "I am going to lend it to you, and I should like to have something to remember it by."
By inadvertence.
Thoughtless Visitor: "Yes, you know, Mrs. Graymaire, the Theosophists hold that the soul, in its migrations, inhabits alternately a male and a female body. Now, for instance, you yourself, in your last existence, were a member of the gentler sex—ah—er—that is, I mean to say Mr. Graymaire was."
