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Show Her First Order. She -was newly married, and did not know a little bit about housekeeping housekeep-ing or shopping, and she was giving her very first order. "I want 10 pounds of paralyied sugar," su-gar," she began with a husii?esslike air. "Yes'm. Anything else?" replied the grocer who knew his business. "Two cans of condemned milk." "Yes'm." He set down the "pulverized sugar'' and "condensed milk." "Anything more, ma'am?" "A pound of desecrated cocoanut." He wrote glibly "dessicated cocoa-nut." cocoa-nut." "Yes'm. What next?" "A bag of fresh salt. Be sure it's fresh." "Nothing more, ma'am? We have nom'e nice horseradish." "No," she said; "it would be of no use to us. We don't keep a horse." |