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Show SUNDAY READING. The whole family climbed out of the wagon and went into the Atlanta book Mtore. They were father, mother and sixteen-year-old daughter. daugh-ter. "Mister, we want ter sorter git eomething good to read on a Sundays, Sun-days, which is powerful lonesome in the country." "Shall be glad to serve you, sir. What will the ladies like ?" "What d'ye want, Sofy ?" "I'd choose somethin' 'bout the new fashions, pa 1" "Otkoarse, I mought a know'd thet I Kin you fix her out?" "Oh, yes," replied the storekeeper; "we have here Godey, Leslie, Harper's Harp-er's Bazar, Peterson, Demorest and numerous other magazines." "Gody ? W'y you don't tell ma he's live an' tigurin' out fashions yet, do ye?" cried the old man. "Oh, yeB?" was the reply. "Well, centennial snakes and cross-barred breeches ! W'y, ole 'ooman, don't ye mind ye thet we hed our weddin' close fixed up arter his plan? Godyl Of koan, Sofy, ye'll tike Gody, and I'll bet the bob-tailed bob-tailed mule an1 the black Bhoat that what he sez is the fashion can't be discounted." "What will your wife like?" asked the merchant, as the old man paid for the magazine. "Somethin' that's got good church readin' in it aome religus paper, ef ye please," replied the old lady, "Here is tbe best we have the Christian at Work." "Hold up, thar I Is thet got any of thet Beecher an' Tilting bizness in it?" "None of yer bizness, anyhow I S'pose there ia?" fired up the old lady. " 'Taint, hey?" "No, 'taint! So'a it's church read-in' read-in' it don't bother you, sir; so dry up!" "Well, mebhe that's so; an' what I read don't bother you, too? All right, mister: jist hand me out half a dozen 'lustrated papers full of pictures of legs with Btriped atockin's on an' fifty dollar garters, and " The old lady chucked the Christian at Work under the table, grabbed tbe old man by the ear, and if he had worn striped Blockings, about eleven inches of them would have been seen between the tops of his Bhoes and tne bottoms of hia pants' legs, aa she made him walk Spanish out to the wagon. Atlanta Constitution, |