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Show i 'JKr-vly do!" sho said, cheerily. "Hot an' dusty, ain't it? We need rain terribly. "Scuso the looks o' iuy Iioupo. We're all in a clutter here now. I don't keep my house in such a muss as this all the time, I kin tell ye, but the fact is we're all upset to-day. To come right out an' tell the honest truth, my olo man went an' committed suicide sui-cide right after breakfast, an' it's kind o' upset things gen'rallj an' put us all about. Ye know that a reg'lar deth in the family is awfully awful-ly up3ettin,' an' when it comes to a suicide it's a good deal more so. I never was quite so upset If he'd only been considerate enough to choose some other day but a Monday, when I have got both bakin' an'washiii' on hand. ' Some peaches? Oh, help yourself your-self to all you want I'd go out an' pick' em for you if he hadn't cut up this hangin'-himself caper. It's tumble upsettin' all round." A BAD TIME TO SUICIDE. A party of tourists were out riding in Kansas one afternoon, when they came to an old house, in tho dooryard of which were seme peach-trees loaded with magnificent mag-nificent yellow peaches. "Let's see if we can't buy some," said one of the party, and ho agreed to go to the door and ask for a basket of peaches. A wiry, active little woman came to the door. i i |