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Show FEW6 LITTLE Ifr I i'i.mm W hiM IIIMI Mi hi I Mil I il IhL HUM T PEDIGREED. !i.shro(l wiis esiublisliing a pigeon cuop of liis own. onmlaling his nuigh-for, nuigh-for, 15ill Hite. In arninping the financial finan-cial promotion of this venture lie went to his mother. "Mother." he said, "I wsmt a dollar dol-lar to buy a pigeon." Mother thought a dollar a rather high price for a pigeon, with common-birds common-birds averaging ten cents. "Fut, mother," Bushrod said, earnestly, earn-estly, "you don't understand. This is a pedigreed pigeon. With its pedigree pedi-gree it's cheap at a dollar." ( Bushrod finally wheedled his moth er out of the dollar and left to buy his blooded bird. He returned with the pigeon and a scrap of crumpled paper in his pocket. "Mother," he said, "this is the pedigree." pedi-gree." "On the crumpled scrap of paper was written : "Grandfather unknown. Grandmother, Grandmoth-er, unknown. Father, unknown. Mother, Moth-er, Bill Kite's pigeon." |