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Show ' Romance of a Child s SUoe. There is a saloon on Kearney street, San Francisco, which keeps m a showed show-ed an abalone shell. It is large, about the size of a man's two outspread bands and in the center a massot pearly ao Sons takes the shapeof a WJ The story is that years ago a little emu Marin county wandered down to the heS diried in between the rocks and lZ taught by the cruel mollusk, which closed alainst the tiny shoe and gripped it close to the rock, vw nfter.when everyone but the Vears .after, when every 0110 u. sat bv the fireside with grown up daugh-ters daugh-ters abwit her. some abalone fisher found he cuSs shell andpnt it on exhibition ! the window of his cabin. There the 6Very "Snt S r !ie resemblance, pnse, so rtart ' S7anacraeC of tte and found SJ TaU wrapped )-jj foWs. There the lost baby s little shoe S. hidden and chafed to pearl.-Phil-adoilihia Inquirer. |