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Show Save! From A Scrape. lie Is a promlneutlawyor In this city; Ilia daughter la seven vears of ago, and walked to the gato with bmi one day last week. The dltle girl kissed her hand to htm until he turned tho corner. He. returned tho salutation each lime. That night when he came home bis ulfehad an Icy stare for hliu, IIo wanted to know the troubio, but she only answered, "Nothing." Any question ques-tion from him recelvvd a short, sham "yea" or "no." After supper sbeoulled him Into another room aud said: "Mr. , Mrs. .our next door neighbor, wus over to sco mo this altsrnnon. She Informed In-formed me uf your conduct when you walked dowd the street, throwing kiss after kiss to hor. She said ber husband was not at homo or he would ahoot you. Will you please Invent some plauslblo excuse that 1 can give tn your neighbor to oxplatn away your reprehensible conduct?" Ho was against tho knot tiest problem ct his life. Ha thought long and hard and finally the light dawned upon bl n. Ho rushed frantically franti-cally out of lite room and returned with hta beloved child tn his arms. "Daughter," "Daugh-ter," said he, "please tel your mnther what yon and papa were doing after dinner today." "We were throwing kl?ses to each other until papa turned tho corner.'' So quickly wits the prosecution dismissed dis-missed and In such n convincing manner man-ner that -the lawyer swooned away when he thought of his narrow escape. Suppose the child hid forgotten the occurrence? There would have been a hot time In town that night. But there's a decided coolness now between the two women.--Owensboro Messen-Rer. |