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Show Trial by Beak. Dorothy wa a particularly well-bre child, and her faults were few; but if she had one, It was perhaps an excess of fastidiousness as regards her food. This trait her fond mamma was ever at great pains to eradicate, so that on one occasion when she observed the young woman gazing with suspicion on an egg, she hastened to reassure her. "My child," she said, "that egg Is perfectly good; and remember that many a little girl would be thankful for what you leave." This remark did not seem to convince con-vince the child of the good quality of the egg In question, but she nevertheless neverthe-less proceeded with Its negotiation with commendable fortitude. At last, however, she could hold out no longer, and her stern parent was reluctantly re-luctantly obliged to acknowledge that she had been hasty, when Dorothy's piping voice was heard Inquiring: "Mother, must I really eat the beak?" |