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Show 60 wide, built entirely of Cyprus wood and pitched inside and out.' " 'Foh de Lawd's soke! What a woman wom-an I exclaimed the old darky, glancing wonderingly over the book at his grinning grin-ning class. He paused and pondered over the wonderful dimensions of Noah's wife for many minutes, and then said: " 'Boys, we musn't doubt anythin' the book says, but take it as the other passage furder on, which says, 'We ore fearfully and wonderfully made.'" Pittsburg Dispatch. His Faith Failed. "I remember a negro in the southern states some years ago," said the old soldier sol-dier as he rested his war worn frame in a chair at the Monongahela house. "He was an old man, and when tired sunning sun-ning himself on a log in the laneway he was accustomed to retire to the shade and doze. He had a class of twenty or so little boys to whom he used to give Bible lessons, generally on Sunday afternoon. after-noon. "It was his practice to give out on one Sunday the lessons to be prepared for the next The old fellow was a little blind and a good bit deaf, and this fact induced the young fellows to put up a joke on hhn. In the old boy's absence they glued two pages of the Bible together, to-gether, and on the following Sunday sat expectant of how their little game would work. The old tutor put on his "specs," and giving a sympathetic glance at his class opened the Bible at the passage about Noah's ark, and began to read. "He spelled out the lesson to the end of the page 'and Noah took with him into the ark one of every kind,' and so on, 'and one wife, and turning over continued, 'she yas. 13 cubits long and |