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Show Tdngh Sola. Mrs. Custer reports a story related to her by a . frontiersman which may b taken as an amusing illustration of . very solemn truth. The te':'-er of the story had stopped at a cabin to get h supply of milk. The family consisted of a mother pnd several ''strapping daughters." As the traveler sat by the tire the shriveled old mother bent over the fireplace puffing at a clay pipe, perfectly stolid and silent, till one of the girls came in and stood at tho fire trying to dry her homisspuri dress. Without raising herself, and in a drawling tone, the mother said presently, pres-ently, "Sal, there's a coal under your fut." In no more animated tone, and without with-out even moving, the daughter replied. "Which fut, mammy?" The girl had run barefoot all her life over the shale and rough ground of that country, and the red hot coal was some time in making its way through the hard surface to a sensitive tissue. 1 |