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Show A Labrador Mother. In his article on tho people, of the I a- il brador coast, in Harper's Magazine, Nor- man Duncan tells a pathetic story of . IH poor inuthcr "whom ho met sitting with her child outside tho Battle Harbor ho- H pltaJ: IH " 'He's always been like that.' sho salcf 11 fles wonderful sick. I'vo fetched un out" here t get the a r lie dons better In tho JM air, zur, alio added. 'Much, much better tM Oh, ay, he does hotter ln the air"' lH " 'He'll bo getting better.' said T, 'here In the hos H " 'He ll die,' she interrupted, quickly 1 was glad that he was to die It wou d be better for him and for her Sho .would forgot his deformity; she would JH forever have th memory of him lying warm upon her breast-warm and loveK for In this, memory a kind to women ou have another?' ll " 'No, zur; 'tis me first.' 1 ime,ilu him,,fr7tf an? complained. Sho lifted him from her lap. rockeii Mm H IT tS time. drU' 1Um C,&C' "SiWrtni ,'!0'tVnd d?1 1,0 taIk?' I naked. Sho looked up, In H glow of pride- and sho anawered me. flushlmr "In-in.iO, whllo she turned hor shining eves one breast:U,,0n SaSlU Snbe h? Hfi " Ho said "mamma" ONCE' HsE? And so tho Labrador 'IliworA' u if .EflQ with tho wholo wldo world." 13 k kwH |