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Show When Courage Failed. "Duke," said the heiress, eagerly, "did you see father?" "Yes." "Well?" "We talked about the weather." "What? Lose your nerve again? Why don't you brace up and talk like a man a subject of a king on whose domain the sun never sets!" "Can't," moaned the duke. "All the iime I was in your 'father's office he kept grinning at a big painting." "What painting?" "The battle of Bunker Hill." Lip-pincott'a. Lip-pincott'a. What Charlie Had. Several of the scholars had returned to Sunday school after being absent some weeks on account of illness. "I had the measles," said one little girl. "I had the mumps," said another. "So did I," said a third. The superintendent superintend-ent heard them, and, addressing a curly-headed boy said: "Well, Charlie, you were absent, too. What did you have?" Charlie's face flushed. He thought a moment and (hen sang out in high treble: "I had a little brudder!" Delineator. |