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TRAVERS ON FISK AND GOULD.

One day last summer, Colonel Fisk was showing Mr.
Travers over the Plymouth Rock, the famous Long
Branch boat. After showing the rest of the vessel,
he pointed to two large portraits of himself and Mr.
Gould, hanging, a little distance apart, at the head of
the stairway.

“There,” says the Colonel, “what do you think of
them?”

“They're good, Colonel—you hanging on one side
and Gould on the other; f—i—r—s—t rate. But,
Colonel,” continued the wicked Mr. Travers, buried
in thought, “w—w—where's our Saviour?”

Mr. Travers, who is a vestryman in Grace Church,
says he knows it was wicked, but he couldn't have
helped it if he'd been on his dying bed.