Show WITH BAITED BREATH When the late Frank R. R Stockton was wasa a 0 working newspaper man In PhiladelphIa Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia he tried his hand hanel at a bit of fiction and submitting It to the editor asked that It be made a a. feature In the Saturday Issue IEsue The editor revised It frowned now and then In the reading I and reaching the end ob observed ened I Its not had bad Stockton hut but you are given to too much cant term Here for fer Instance you ou speak of or a womans woman's waiting with baited halted breath Now No what Is baited breath anyway any was prompt In replying to the effect that there was ouch a 0 thing surely that surely that not long before he was walking out In the Darb Darby district and I wishing to locate a n certain farmhouse asked a a. boy who was fishing for diree- diree The Tho bo boy mumbled a reply that Stockton could not understand He Hc asked again and again received the tho mumbled answer Wh Why dont don't you plainly he demanded to kno know What have you In your jour our mouth for tor fish replied the boy And that said Stockton to his e editor edi l- l tor Is what I 1 call warrant for the expression baited breath |