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Show SHE WOULD SPANK DARLING Five-Year-Old Wns Pumping in tho Questions Too Fast for Mother. They were strolling through ono ofj tho uptown parks, plainly mother nnd daughter, the latter a child Dctwecn five and six years of age. Tho daughter daugh-ter evidently is learning tho letters, and has tho regular order of tho al-j phabet well In her llttlo mind, relntea the Now York Sun. Passing under n big oak treo, tho mother stopped and picked up a haud-ful haud-ful of acorns with their cups thnt had fallen from tho tree. "Look, Knthlc," she Bald to tho child, "you can tako theso homo for cups and saucers for dolly." "What aro they, mamma?" cried tho delighted child. "Acorns," said tho mother. "Why not Bcorns?" said the interested inter-ested llttlo one. "BecauBo they grow on that oak treo," said tho wlso mother. "Then why not Ocorns?" queried tho deep thinking little one. "I'll spank you, darling, when wo get homo If you ask mo any moro such! foolish questions," answered tho affco. tlonato mother. |