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Show GREAT WAS THE FALLI How Day. Cihman and Domeetlc Uten-die Uten-die Carr.n Downstairs Together. When a boy Is In hnsto to go so.uc-whoro so.uc-whoro on his own account it Is i:ct e actly tho time to send him elsewheie on your behalf. But a fond mother thought differently. Sho wanted lid boy to carry somo things downstnhs when ho wished to bo outdoors tickling tick-ling tho hoiso of a cabman who had just brought his father from the Bta-tlon. Bta-tlon. But ho took tho things. Ho put a mirror under ono arm and n clock under tho other. Then he took n chair In each hand and hung a pall of dlshc3 round his neck, and tilled his pockets with tumblers, and Btarted for tho stairs. Just as ho got to the top to commenco tho descent tho mirror slipped, and In an endeavor to recover it ho lost his balance and went shooting shoot-ing down to tho next floor, accompanied accompa-nied by all thoso articles, and making an earthquake at every bound. Coming up tho stairs at the same time was tho cnbninn with n heavy box on his shoulders. Ho saw the danger and had sufficient prcsonco ol mind to shout, "Hoy, you! go hack!" But tho boy did not hear him, apparently, appar-ently, for ho kept right on, and by tha cabman, leaving that unfortunate man ti follow ou his head, with the box on tho top of him. Tho cries and crash brought tho rest of tho family to tho rescue, and tho disconsolate youth was saturatoJ with arnica and tears, contrary to the advlco of tho cabman, who suggested that he bo driven Into tho earth with a mallet. |