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Show A MISTAKE. YtsLerday afternoon a "dear duck uf a Itllow," who coulisses the most lender love for the littie loiks, .ind is in the habit of stopping the nurse's carriage and kissing the baby in it when there is any hope of the nurse teiling the young ladies about it, was giving exhibitions 0 his philuprogeo-iliveness philuprogeo-iliveness on one of the prominent reiid-.nr.:e btreeU o: U.u city. He h:td just Htopp'.'d a:id "clucked"" to a li:Lle two-year old beauty peeping out of its mother's window, and chucked a chubby little cherub under the ehiu as it W-is trunuitti pssi in a baby earringa, when became to a yard con-taming con-taming an animate object hidden by a bright shawl and a big sun-jouuot. Aa a happy coincidence the divinity whom he adored was approaching, and the opportunity to make a guod impressiou was not to be lost. So he elevated his eye-brows in his sweetest smile, and bis voice rose in silvery accents as he stretched out his hands to the object in the shawl aud said: "Oh, what a aweet little girl ! come and let me kiss her, tual's a darling!" Tnen that shawl was thrown off aud that bonnet was reared back and the angry visage of a maiden lady of 40 years was flashed upon him, and a screaming voice that could be heard five blocks away, shouted in his ears: "You miserable young villiau! how dare you insult me, sir? Git, you scamp, you!" And he "got,'' in deep aisgrace. Omaha Herald. |