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Show Looking Ahead. (Cassell's Saturday Journal.) A charming young lady went into the principal stationer's shop in a country town and asked to see some thin note paper. After selecting what she desired, she hesitated for a moment. mo-ment. "Do you make any reduction to clergymen?" cler-gymen?" she asked, softly. "Certainly, madam," said the stationer, sta-tioner, with great promptness. "Are you a clergyman' wife?" "N-no," said the young lady. "Ah, a clergyman's daughter then." said the shopman, as he began to tie up the paper in a neat parcel. "N-no," was the lady's hesitating reply. re-ply. Then she leaned across the counter count-er and spoke in a confidential whisper: "But if nothing happens I shall be engaged en-gaged to a theological student when he comes home from college this term." |