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Show JUST A "LITTLE MITE DEAF" Circumstantial Evidence That Emma Salter Needed Some Artificial Aid in Hearing. "You know how Emma Salter used to say she was a mite deaf, but when she was real deaf she'd buy her some kind of a contrivance so's to make it easy for her friends," said Mrs. Jennings Jen-nings to her daughter; and the young woman nodded, forbearing to remind her mother that the span of her recol-tions recol-tions was not precisely the duplicate of the old lady's. "She never bought one, a.nd she never will, now," said Mrs. Jennings, who had an exhausted air. "I hollered to her all the way out to the Light, and all the way back; and while- we were vlsitin' Mis' Gorham the sunset gun sounded and made a great noise. "I thought sure she'd hear that, and I didn't suspicion how she'd hear it till Bert Gorham come into the room a second after. " 'You've grown considerable heavl-er'n heavl-er'n you were, Bert,' Emma said to him. 'I heard you coming up the stairs plain as day!'" Youth's Companion. |