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Show HOW she Is Armed, Boston 11 raid. "Aren't yon sometimes timid f" I asked a young lady w hose work sometimes takes her, late at night, into parts of the city Where the "tough" element abounds. "Oh. not at all," 6he replied, "I go armed, you know." "Armed'' Do you mean you have a slx-ahooter slx-ahooter eouccalcd about you?" "I never tired a revolver ill my life." "A dagger of the dainty tragedy pattern, perhaps V" t "No; lam not an Italian, though I work among thorn." "It can't bo you're borrowed your brother's broth-er's razor 'r" "A razor! Oh, nn; does my complexion Justify the assumption that I could uso that for a weapon?" Well, thou, what do you defend yourself with?" "Why. one of these hat pins," she replied, as she drew from her jaunty toque a needle-like needle-like article with a round, solid kind) at the end. "If a man attempted to molest me, aud 1 Jabbed that Into his arm, don't you believe he'd halt without much ceremony? That would give me time loeseape. perhaps, or, at leasl, raise an alarm. These pin are of tho Boost steel, you know, and never bead or break.'' . . - , |