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Show n NOT CONCERNED. "Sir," asked tho pale-faced, side-whiskered side-whiskered man of the heavy-set, chubby-checked man wb'o waa smoking a long, black "cigar and rending a sport-lag sport-lag paper, "would yeu permit your boy to smoko cigarettes whon ho grows apt" "That's a question you'll have to decide de-cide for yourself," rephod the heavy-let heavy-let man. "I don't know how you would look at It, you aee. It's you and your boy for that" T did not refer to myself ta the question, air. What I meant to inquire in-quire waa whother you Intended to permit your own boy to smoko." "t'vo never given It a minute's thought" "Whatt never pondered upon the effect upon tho constitution, to cay nothing of tho morals, of your ago to allow turn to smoko tho deadly things r "Never a thought no, sir." "And will you allow him to drlnkr "1 have nover thought about It" "Oh, can such things bo can such things be? Allowing your child to, grow up In tho midst of temptation aad never Bpcaklng a fatherly word to" "Look here, colonel I You mean well, I guess, but maybo you'd better let 'me toll you that I'm a bachelor of 30 years standing slnco tho last girl threw mo over, and I haven't any" Tho man of tho palo face and side-whlakcrs side-whlakcrs was making a dissolving view of himself. Jedgo. |