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A HARD NAME.
A New Yorker was introduced to a Cleveland gentleman
to-day, and not hearing his name distinctly,
remarked:
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“I beg pardon, sir, but I didn't catch your name.”
“But my name is a very hard one to catch,” replied
the gentleman; “perhaps it is the hardest name you
ever heard.”
“Hardest name I ever heard? I'll bet a bottle of
wine that my name is harder,” replied the New Yorker.
“All right,” said the Cleveland man. “My name is
Stone—Amasa J. Stone. Stone is hard enough, isn't it,
to take this bottle of wine?”
“Pretty hard name,” exclaimed the New Yorker,
“but my name is Harder—Norman B. Harder. I bet
my name was Harder and it is!”
The joke cost Mr. Stone just $27.87.
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