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Show AN OBTUSE MAN. She was a stylish young lady about 18 yehrs old, and to accommodate a friend she took the baby out (or an airing. She was wheeling it up and down the walk when an oldish man, very deaf, cume along and inquired for a certain person supposed to live on that street. She nearly yelled her head off trying to answer him, and he looked around, caught sight of the baby and said : "Nice child, that. I suppose you (eel proud of him?" "It isn't mine," she yelled at him. "Boy, eh? Well, he looks just like you." "It isn't mine!" she yelled again, hut he noddrd his head and continued: contin-ued: "Twins, eh? Where's the other one?" Sho started off with the cab, hut he lullowed and asked: "Did it die of colic?" Despairing of making him understand under-stand by words of mouth, she pointed to the baby, at herself, and then shook her head. "Yes yes, I see 'tother twin in , the house. Their father is fond of them of course!" She turned the cab and hurried tho other way, but he followed and asked: "Do they kick around much nights?" "I tell you 'taint mine," alio shouted, looking very red in the face. "I think you're wrong there!" he answered. "Children brought up on tbe bottle are apt to pine and die." She Btarted on the run for the gate, hut before she hurl nnnnwl it hn nn,.-.o up and at:kcd: "Have to spank 'em once and awhile, I suppose?" She made about twenty gestures in half a minute, and ho hi;lpi.d the cab through the gate and said: "Our children were all twins, and I'll send my wifo down to givo you soma advico. You see " But alio picked up a flower pot and flung it at him. Ho jumped back, und as she entered tho house ho called out: "Hope insanity won't breakout on the twins!" Detroit Free l'ress. |