• RECREATION. 



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A mother was showing her dear little 

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 lions, and was talking very solemnly, try- 

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"Ma," said Joe; "oh, ma, just look at 

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"Philadelphia's census total would have 

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"What was that?" 



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 was so good natured that he hated to 

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"Wasn't it terribly lonesome and dreary 

 living away up there among the Eskimos 

 a whole year?" 



"It was delightful in the spring, ma'am. 

 They don't do any housecleaning up there." 

 — Chicago Tribune. 



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 he is able to read. 



I. H. Heltzen, Davis, W. Va. 



"It is saddening to see autumn draw 

 nigh." 



"Yes; it makes the foliage on one's sum- 

 mer hat look so tacky." — Chicago Record. 



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