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"Myrtle," said her father, "I want you to send that young Smithertojj about his business. I won't have him coming around here any more. I don't like him."
"Why, father, I can't see what you can have against him. He Is awfully nice, comes from a very fine family, doesn't use tobacco and he never touches a drop of any kind of liquor."
"That's all right. I don't like him. He hasn't any sense of humor, and I don't believe a man who lacks the sense of humor can ever amount to much."
"But he has a sense of humor. After you had gone upstairs last night he said you were the funniest thing hs had ever seen."
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