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Show Evidently Boston Child. "So this is the baby, eh?" said the genial bachelor. "Bless his little toot-sie-wootsies I Watch me tickle-um ribs." ' The genial one proceeded to play ragtime on the unoffending infant's ribs, foolishly imagining the child was enjoying it. The up-to-date baby stood it for some time nnd then plaiutively cried out : "Mother, will you kindly inform me whether the deplorable condition of this person is due to permanent dementia de-mentia or spasmodic and intermittent Insanity?" |