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Show Circumstantial, but Not Convincing. The mother of two boys, aged respectively re-spectively five and seven, had a hard question to settle the other day. The younger boy came to her crying with exasperation, and said thut he was "a blckel short." "Well, what's 'the nse of yelling about It?" said his older brother, who was calmly eating candy. "You don't think I took it, do you?" "I don't say you did," the little fellow fel-low replied, "but I'm a nickel short, and you're eating candy." Youth's Companion. |