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Show Too I, lie was a great ?i'Slrian, but. ono I day his physical riieijfy seemed to glvo f I out. Weary and win and sad, he was beginning to despair of finding rest y" and ivfreslHiient ivhrn u small wayside way-side house came into vlefv. The good lady of i lie house executed her commission com-mission to supply herJ.lsilor with ! egg-', loast and tea. j j ".May I open the eggsir yon 7" she I ashfd. smilingly. Tin- young miin nodded assent, hut, ' although lln shell looked well enough ; appearances me often deceptive, and ' that egg would not have done en-ditto any sell '-respecting hen. lie drew hack his chair wilh a sigh. "Hasn't il been boiled long enough, sir'.'" iUeriei ihe hidy. "Yes." he rej, lied, wearily, "but It was not boiled soon enough." i |