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Show THE LITjTLE ONE'S REASONING. Natural Deduction Made by Physician's Physi-cian's Daughter. Dr. W. T. Bull tells this story about a country aureem ho once had threo log amputation cases In a week. Tho unusual numtior of serious and similar operations naturally caused talk in tho surgeon's household and his little daughter was greatly interested. A few days after tho last operation the surgeon's wlfo and daughter wero rummaging rum-maging in tho attic. In a trunk was found a daguerreotype depleting a girl of about eight years of age. Tho portrait, por-trait, through a peculiarity of pose, showed only one leg of tho subject, tho other being doubled up under her In a manner truly feminine "Whoso picture pic-ture is that, mamma?" asked tho surgeon's sur-geon's daughter, "Mine. It was taken when I was a child not much older than you nro now." "Did you know papa thon?" "No, dear. Why do you ask?" "I thought maoo you did, 'causo you'vo only got ono leg." Now York Tlmc.f |