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The Colfax chronicle., 1895-11-30
FATTsNIno HOGS.
There Arc Profitable and Uupro6ta5ie
Ways of Doing 1t.


Ways of Doing 1t.
One thousand bushels of corn should
make 10, 600 pounds of pork. which, di-
vided among 20 hogs. would give 143
pounds per head This would be a
fair allowance of clear fat to the head,
provided clover would make the
frame. etc, to an equal weight, giving
800 pounds as the gross weight of the
hog at selling time. On the system of
fattening on old corn for the early
market, this would be a fair weight
for spring pig to attain, and the
owner would have no reason to
complain if it did not reach
$50 pounds. Allowing 10 pounds
of pork-to the bushcl of corn in the
above estimate docs not reserve any
for winter feeding, etc, but against
this should be counted the undoubted
fact that hogs running on clover all
summer, and finished off on old corn
for month or six weeks. will lay on
over ten pounds of pork to the bushel.
Twelve or thirteen pounds would be
nearer the mark.
Pigs dropped in March or April
should receive liberal feeds of slops for
at least three months, of which the
basis must be cows milk. If this is
lacking, many viii die of dis
ease before green feed comes
and the remainder can never be
forced along fast enough to at
tain a weight of two hundred and fifty
pounds in early fall. To winter hogs
chiefly on corn is not only very diff
cult on account of the tendency to dis
ease on this constipating feed, but Il
is scarcely profitable.
Under most favorable circumstances
il is very difficult to make spring
mig weigh two hundred and fiftl
pounds for the early fall market
am SO well satisfied of the profit i'll
bunch of good shotes. summered oi
clover and finished off with old corn
that | do not hesitate to advise th'
winteriug of most or all of them
should emphatically advise agains
keeping hogs eighteen months A yea
is enough at the outside. The amour
of corn it will require will depen
greatly on circumstances. IL they ar
kent eighteen months and wintere
entirely on corn it will take fifty-hv
or sixty bushels per head, and tn
owner viii realize no profit from tn
o,eration, or extremely little
I have had forty hogs, about ten 9
sss7sr months old, make very rapi
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As Coco as She Sent.

A good story is going the rounds at
the expense of well-known society
woman who doesn't live a thousand
miles from Rittenhouse square. The
lady in question has just returned
from visit to friends in Washington,
where she attended quite number OF
functions. 1t is related that at re-
ception she was presented to one OF
the attaches of the Russian legation.
Feeling in quizzical mood, she ex'
tended her hand to the Russian, at
the same time exclaiming: "How do
you doski?" Not to be outdone, the
gentleman from the czar's domains
promptly and tersely replied: "Bullo-
vitch! And the Philadelphia lady ad
mitted that the laugh was on her
Philadelphia Record.
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HERE AND THERE.

1T is claimed that il rye is fed too
long to hogs it causes itching of the
skin.
If calf is only half fed when it is
young. it will never be the most profit
able animal to keep.
Fortunate is the farmer who is
fore handed and foresighted enough to
keep a crib of old corn and a field Of
red and white clover to feed a bunch
of hogs on for the early fall market.
1t is said that IL two blankets are
put on wet horse, the moisture will
soon collect in the outer one, which
may be removed, leaving the horse
dry.
Corn on cob, well ground with half
the bulk of oats and mixed with hay,
is highly recommended as ration for
horses. The German cavalry have or
dered such supplies.
Increased attention is being given
by the farmers of this country TO
dairying, especially to butter dairy
ing. We think this is move in the
right direction, and il intelligntly pur-
sued will result in the greater pros
perity of the farming class.
Probably the cheapest meat that
the farmer ever makes is the pork that
he makes on clover. OF course refer
ence here is had not SO much to the
actual pork which fills the barrel al
Christmas as to the muscle and bone
that are built up and the general foun
dation which is laid for that fat.
The annual loes to productive in
dustries in the United States caused by
insects is estimated at $3.50, 100000
Here is a fair battle between man ant
another sort of earth occupiers. The,
are smaller. but If they can whip u
they have undoubtedly as good righ
to the world as we have.
The more we study the subject tn
more are we convinced that farmer
can not afford to keep any of thei
Eland in pastures, especially in the olde
sections of the country. where tn
!, value of land is from half hundre
dollars per acre upward, andwhere tn
interest on the value of an acre is froI
three to eight dollars
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The Future of Prices.

The packing season has opened, and
judging from the conditions relating
to the pork market it would seem that
prices are at the bottom. The cholera
is decimating herds over a great ex-
tent of territory, and from the infected
regions every thing marketable is being
sent out and no attempt made to build
up reduced herds. This can not but be
followed by shortage of hogs six and
twelve months hence in many of the
best producing regions. According to
the government figures the shortage
of hogs is considerably aside from the
ravages of cholera, and the hurried
marketing of immature animals, which
will cut the pork yield down consider
ably. 1t appears to us that an era OF
low prices for corn and high prices for
hogs is one of the sure things in the
near future. me breeders can find
little Immediate satisfaction in this,
but their turn is coming. While the
people in the regions Of infection will
not buy at present, they will be ready
BUYERS Just as soon as disease disap
pear and prices begin to advance. In
| the meantime the owner of good
breeders can console himself with the
thought that those he has to KEEP
| longer than he would like will be fec
on cheap corn.-Western Swineherd.
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GREED FOR LAND.
One of the Greatest Obstacles In the Way
of the Southern Farmer.

One of the Greatest Obstacles In the Way
of the Southern Farmer.
One of the worst obstacles southern
farmers have to overcome is the greed
for land. Thousands have kept their
noses to the grindstone for more than
half lifetime by trying to cultivate
all out of doors. They did not, per-
haps, want the earth. but they thought
they could not get on at all without
as much of it as they could pay tax
on. The sine qua non for the typical
southern farmer was a fenced field as
large as he could plow over with his
available force twice during the sea-
son, provided that rain fell only at
might SO that every day might count.
And then he wanted at least half a
mile of external domain on every side
as precaution against intruders, and
to Craze his mules on. The result of
this sort of farming was enormous
crops of weeds, and mortgages, and
other things inconvenient to handle.
| There are some of these broad mind
ed beings still tickling the earth,
and declaring that farming is only
drudgery, and that there is no profit
in it. Time, however, is ridding the
landscape of these so-called farmers,
and the hillocks in the graveyards tell
what came of the farmers. Those that
are left behind are in the beaten path
way to the same goal. Thus nature
in her own good time, removes the
stumbling blocks and clears the way
for farmers who farm, and aftel
awhile this will be the only sort left
This is the sort the world wants ant
will have by getting rid OF all other
by natural means. For farmer wh'
himself holds the plow, fifty acres j
more than he needs. II he has chill
dren this fifty acres can be divided Vi
into farms for his children, for be i
known that single working farme
can make more profit from twenty-fiv
acres than fifty, and more from twelv
and half than twenty-five. What h
really needs, and all he needs, is tn
quality of land which he can give tn
, highest culture, and to which he ca
apply all the skill and science at hi
command. Farm and Ranch.
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HARDENING OF THE LIVER.
How a Pittsfield, Ill, Gentleman
Overcame It.
Condition Often Induces Paralysis and
Should Have the Best of Treatment.
From he Democrat. Pfttsfcld, III.

From the Democrat, Pfttsfctd, I'LL .
Mr.. Valentine Smith, q farmer living in
this county, whose post Office address is
Pittsfied, H., for the good of humanity In
general, and especially for the benefit OF
any who may be afflicted as he was, wishes
to make the following statement with ref
erence to the great benefit he has received
from using DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People:
His statement is as follows: "About
year ago was living in the Mississippi bot
tom near the river, and had become very
much broken III health, suffering greatly
from distension or hardening OF the lower
part of the abdomen or bowels, besides be-
ing troubled with my kidneys and other
complications which rendered my case, as
had supposed, almost hopeless. had been
In this condition, although, of course, not
as bad as was year ago, for something
over six years, and had about given up all
hope of ever being well man again, when,
by the many testimonials and advertise
ments I had read with reference to the
wonderful cures perfected by DR.. VIII
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People was IN
duced to give them trial. After taxing
two boxes l began to feel greatly relieved,
and by the time had used up five or SIX
boxes 1 was completely cured and have
been, comparatively speaking, well man
ever since. During all the time that was
suffering with this dreadful disease, which
| / am unable to name, passed many sleep
less nights and was in great distress almost
| continually and was able to do but little
! work. Now 1 sleep and eat well, and al
| though am sixty-one years OF age, am
| able TO do a good days work on the farm
having put in and tended eight acres Of
corn this season, besides doing large
amount of other work on the farm. III
short, think your medicine great bless
Ing to humanity, and can chcerfully recon-
mend it to all suffering as was. had peer
| In this condition six or seven years ana mac
given everything l could hear OF, doctor.
included, q fair trial, but couid get no relleI
VALENTINE SsfrIu.
Subscribed and sworn to before me thu
4th day of juno A. D., 1895.
MINNIE CoLEY, Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, In G. con
densed form, all the elements necessary Z
give new life and richness to the blood ant
restore shattered nerves. They are an un
failing specific for such diseases as locomo
tor ataxia, partial paralysis, st. Vltus dance
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, neryou
headache, the after effect OF la grippe, pa
pitation Of the heart, pale and sailow con
plexions, all forms of weakness either
male or female Pink Pills are sold oy a
dealers, or will be sent post paid on receiI
of price SO cents box, or SIX boxes 70
$3.50, by addressing DR.. Williams Medicin
Company, Schenectady, n. \.
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HOUSEHOLD eREvlTlEs.

Graham Muffins.-One and one-half !
cupfuls of graham flour, one cupful OF !
sour milk, one-half teaspoonful OF salt. |
Dissolve the soda in a teaspoonful OF |
cold water; add it to the sour milk, !
beat the egg light, stir into the milk,
and then the flour and salt.-Prairle
Farmer
Raised Buns Use one quart OF
milk; boil one pint of it. Add to the
whole quart piece of butter the size
of an egg, two-thirds of cup of sugar
and two eggs beaten together, one-haif
a cup of black cnrrants and one-haif
cup of yeast. Let the mixture rise
over night Farm and Fireside.
Old Virginia Batter Bread. In
bowl put one cup of sifted yellow corn
meal, one tablespoonful of lard and
one teaspoonful of salt, a pinch OF
soda Pour boiling water over all and
stir until you have nice mush; now
beat in two eggs. Thin with one cup
of sweet milk and bake in hot oven
half an hour. Use pudding dish to
bake in.-Detroit Free Press.
Ham Croque ttes.-One cupful OF
finely chopped cooked ham, one of
bread crumbs, two of hot mashed po-
tatoes, one large tablespoonful of but
| ter, three eggs, speck of cayenne.
| Beat the ham, cayenne, butter and two
of the eggs into the potato. Let the
mixture cool slightly, and shape it like
croouettes. Roll in bread crumbs, put
in the frying basket and plunge into
1 70 l. M
and serve.-Home.
| Salmon San dwich.- the con.
tents of a can of salmon with a mayon-
naise dressing, about half cupful be-
| ing sufficient for the small-sized cans.
In removing the fish from the can take
out as little oil as possible. Mince the
fish fine, bones and all, the bones being
challly in their preserved state. Add
the dressing, mixing we'll. Remove
the soft insides of number of French
rolls and fill the space thus made with
the fish mixsure.-Ho
/ Pudding with Raisins. Into dou
Bile boiler put half cupful each of rice
and raisins; pour over them quart o.
fresh milk and add saltspoonful O
salt Allow this to boil gently for al
hour and half, then add the wei
beaten yolks of three eggs, cupfu
of sugar and vanilla or lemon flavor t.
the taste Pour into pudding disl
J and bake in a moderate oven till firm
then cover with ameringue made from
the whites of the eggs, brown light.
in the oven and set away to COOL
Good Housekeeping.
Pine Apple Fritters- Make thic
and smooth batter with three-quarter
of a pint of cream, the yolks an
whites of three eggs beaten separately
a pinch of salt and -four enough t
make it the proper consistency. Tax
the peel from the pine, ,cut it into slices
and let them soak in two glasses c
curacao mixed with two and one-hal
ounces of powdered sugar, for severe
|, hours When well favored with tn
/ liquor, dip the pieces into the thic
4 batter and fry them in boiling-hot fa'
: When done drain them on white bio
4 ting paper to absorb the grease. Serv
y them on white dolly, and sift gram
4 lated sugar over them quickly.--Mar
. Mason in Boston Budget.
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DON'T STUFF YOUR CHILDREN.
Parents Afflicted with the Fad OF Perpetual
Luncheon.

Parents Afflicted with the Fad OF Perpetual
Luncheon.
Has anybody risen to explain what
under the canopy of the blue heaven
makes fathers and mothers labor under
the delusion that the stomach of the
Young child is like that of a nanny
goat in toughness and like balloon
for elasticity? Life would be too short
to abor with these fathers and moth
ers if their extraordinary belief merely
affected sane peoples opinions of
them But poor babies! They are the
ones that have to suffer in whose be-
half several societies with long names
and with longer creeds might be ad-
vantageously started. Did you ever
see a parent on a journey of any dis
tance whatsoever, from horse car
ride to a jaunt across the continent,
or the great Atlantic, who did not
begin to feed the child with him or
her as soon as the boat or train or car
started, and kept up the stufing pro-
cess till you, in your misery or SYM
pathy, passed out of sight? Hardly
ever The children cry for things to
eat? OF course they do They have
been brought up, as far as they have
got, that way. The minute child
opens it's mouth something is stuffed
! into it to eat The child NAV wish
some water, or to have its position
! changed; if it is too little to say SO, or
does not know enough to say so, some
| thing TO eat is given it. The
something is usually candy. pea
nuts, sweet cakes and bananas. The
| baby has indigestion and frets and
fumes and fusses. OF course it does.
It's SO mighty uncomfortable it cant
help it. Or when things have been
pushed beyond its endurance altogeth
er, it has a convulsion.
Do you know what physicians de
when called in to see children writh
ing in spasms of pain? Ten times ou
of eleven they hnd the child suffering
from an overloaded stomach, and TIN
treatment is an emetic to get the hor
rid mass away from the rebellious suf
fering organs. Nine-tenths of all tn
children old enough to talk, on jour
ney of any kind, are restless not be
cause they are hungry, but becaus
thev are confiued in little space an
obliged TO sit unwontedly still. Anus
them, not by stuffing them with foo
they don't need and should not b
obliged to try to odigest, but with some
thing to look at Instead of openin
up bag of eatables every time tn
child squirms give him picture boo
: or tell him story. The perpetus
motion luncheon notion that almost a
mothers and many fathers are affecte
: | by, and nearly all children are Athlete
) with the minute they are taken out {
their own door yard, is downright err
| elty to children. 1t is not mistake
. ! kindness at all: it is egregious selfisl
! ness on the part of the parents, wh
take the easiest method of lkeepin g-tt
> childfen from making n sound by kee
,ug their mouths filed with first or
: thing and then another that an ostric
couldn't digest without kicking up
rumpus over i. IN. i. Commercial A
vcrtiser,
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RIDGEwAY, Mo-, Aug. u, 1895.
THE PIso COMPANY,
Warren, Pa.

Gentlemen:
Six years ago last Spring took severe
cold, which settled on my lungs. cougheo
and spit blood until my husband was
alarmed about me- told him to go to the
drug store and get me a bottle of Piso's
Cure for Consumption. He did so, and by
the time had taken its contents according
to directions was very much better. he
then bought two more bottles, and they
cured me.
In fact. we could hardly keep house with
out Piso's Cure for Consumption. My hus-
band is subject to cough every Winter,
and he says nothing (and he has tried every
cough medicine on the market) helps him
as does Piso's Cure.
You may publish the above If you so de
Very truly yours,
Mrs. DELLA LOTT.
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Bubbles or Medals.

arsapalas When you think of it how contradictory
that term be only best anything best
sarsapara as there is highest mounta longest
deepest ocean And that best sarsaparia Is! There's
mountain height and ocean DEPTH but
how sarsapara could you chemists But then
do it? The Worlds Fair Committee tested and
thoroughly They behind the label the bottle What did
this sarsapara Every make of sarsapar shut out
of the Fair except Ayers So it that Ayers the only
sarsapara admitted the Wors Fair The committee found
the best They for anything that not the best
best Saapaa received the medal and awards
Remember the word best is bubble any breath
blow; pins prick such bubbles Those others
blowing bes sarsapa bubbles since the Worlds Fair
pricked True but Ayers Sarsapara has the medal
The pin scratches the medal proves it gold The pin that
pcks the bubble wind We point to medals not bub
bles when we say The best sarsaparila is Ayers
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A Rare Woman.

Jinks-l never saw a house where
everything ran SO smoothly as at
Broadgrin's.
Minks-Yes; lucky fellow, Broad
grin. He's got wife who knows how
to keep the servants amused while she
does the work.-N. Y. Weekly.
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when WRINKLES Seam the Brow.

And the locks grow scant and silvery, in
firmities of age come on apace. To retard
and ameliorate these is one of the benign ei-
fects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, amed-
icine to which the aged and infirm can re-
sort as safe solace and invigorant. II
counteracts tendency to rheumatism and
neuralgia, improves digestion, rectlfies bill
iousness and overcomes malaria. "A VINE
glass before retiring promotes slumber.
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Overcoats and winter wraps viii be In fash
ion. They can be discarded, temporarily,
while travelling In the steam heated trains
of the Chicago, Milwaukee IL st. Paul Rail-
way. For solid comfort, for speed and fos
safety, no other line can compare with This
great railway Of the West.
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81 wonder what makes those but
tons burst off SOP" Dora petulantly ex-
claimed. David looked at her tight
fitting dress. ''Force of habit, proba-
bly," he said, after thoughtful pause.
-Rockland Tribune.
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Highest Of all in Leavening Power-Las US Govt Report
RH!a!! q! RsklGs RsxdssE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

A COUPLE Of jailbirds were drinking ~
gether when one Of them took out his
watch. "Bless mel" exclaimed his aston.
ished companion, you've got watch T.
cost youn "Six months.n-Washingt
Star.
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Very truly yours,
Mrs. DELLA LOTT.

WISE men will apply their remedies to
vices, not to names; to the causes OF evii
which are permanent, not the occasional
organs by which they act, and the transit
tory modes in which they appear.-Burke.
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The skin and knowledge

Essential to the production of the most per-
feet and popular laxative remedy known,
have enabled the California Eng syrup 20.
to achieve n great success in the reputation
of its remedy, Syrup of Figs, as it is con-
ceded to be the universal laxative. For sale
by all druggists.
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uSur has been thrice married. And all
three husbands deadl She has had ter
rible experience "Yes, but then she has
a brother who is an undertaken, and he al
WAYS gives her good deal off."-Boston
Transcript.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Il a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

PEACE AT LAsT.-ssThere IL nothing now
to ma our happiness as Bass remarked
when his wife's mother took her departure.
Boston Transcript.
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DoRA-ssMr. Spooner says he always feels
like fish out of water when heis with me. y
Cora-ssThen you've hooked him, havenv
youl"-Harpers Bazaar.
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"AHl Let me think minutel" exclaimed
Cholly Taddles. ''I3ut do you imagine yol
can keep it up that long!n asked Mis-
Kittish, anxiously. Roxbury Gazette.
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FINANCIAL MIND READER-Beggar Yer
haven't got ten cents CT bout yer, has YER
bossl, The Nan-''How did you find tina,
out thought no one knew / was broke
but myself "-Syracuse Post.
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JACK PorTs-"Malsing love is good deal
like playing cards. Miss PiplSin-'"How
SOL" Jack Potts-"Thcre's q lot in know
ing what hand is worth. Life.
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WHEN a new paper is started In this SEQ
ton of the country, it Il reported as an
other yarn mill In full operation.-TexAs
Siftings.
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POETRY has been to me its own exceeding
great reward; it has given me the habit OF
wishing to discover the good and the beau
Coleridge.
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SoRRow has not been given to US for sor-
rows sake, but as lesson which we are 70
learn somewhat, which once learned y
ceases to be sorrow.-Carlyle.
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81 BEGAN life without q cent in my
pocket said the purse-proud man to an
acquaintance. 81 didn't even have u pocket"
replied the latter, meekly.
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HAVE found Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton an unfailing medicine. =. r. LoTz,
1906 Scott St., Covington, KY, Oct. /, 1904
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In Maoriland Office the reporter lately
wrote: s'Dr johnson felt tho deceased 8
pulse before prescribing" The printer set
1t up: ssDr. johnson felt the deceased's
purse before prescribing"
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'THAF man causes me no end of annoyance
over q BILL 'sWhy don't you sue him and
collect it!' 'SCollect it, He's trying to do
that. Chicago Record.
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THE saddest things in life are emen without
manhood, women without womanLood and
children without hildhood.-Young Mems
Era.
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BEEcHAM's PILLS for constipation 10c and
and go by it. Annual sales g. ,OOO, 600 boxes.
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Will. somc fisherman kindly inform us
how the bass can reach the upper seal Bos-
ton Transcript.
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WIEN one has no design but to speak
plain truth he may say a great deal in q
very narrow ompass.-Steele.
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DoN'T Neglect a Cough. Take Some Haleo
Honey Of Horehound and Tar frstdnfer
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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SHE-''You seem nervous, George"
George -''I-rve half q mind to kiss you"
81 thought that was about the size of IT,
Town Topics.
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.MAMMA-A-Al Boo-hooi We's cryingl
Tum up'tairs an see what's de matter wiv
us !r-Punch.