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Show Always the Same. They had been engaged about filteen minutes and she nestled her bead a little closer under un-der the Bhadow of his monumental shirt collar, and whispered, "And dow what are you going to call me, Algernon?" "Birdie!" he whiepered , rapturously, while bia voice trembled jwith tender emotion, "always and :ever, nothing but "Birdie!" And !ehe fairly cooed with del'gbt. , He kept his word, although with the 'growing precision ot middle :ii;e. he I has become specific and does not deal in sweeping generalities any more, end so it was the day before yester da' a neighbor going in tbe back way to borrow the axe, a cup of sugar and the cistern pole, heard him call her "an old Bage-hen." ilaickeyc. |