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Show GRANDMA'S STORY. "When your papa was a little boy," said grandma, "we lived in the moun tains of Colorado in a log cabin, just your grandpa and 1, and J had to do all my own work milking, weeding the garden and taking care of my cnick-ens. cnick-ens. Tour papa (you know "his name was Ignatius, too) did not have any nurse, but he was the best of babies. Every day before I went out doors to attend to my work I would put him in hi3 crib with his bottle of milk, and he would go to sleep by himself. He was not crosi? and did not cry if I left him in the house by himself." Ignatius turned red, for that was the reason of his temper that, morning; there was no one in the house when he woke i:. For a long while his one bottle of milk would be enough until dinner time, but one day I came back and found the milk -all gone and Ignatius very hungry. He could say a few words, and he kept on beg-ging. .'bottly.' 'milk, until I gave him some more. The little fellow drank it as if he were almost starved. , . "1 did not understand it, but your grandpa just laughed, and thought . ii showed that baby was growing; ec I did not feel quite satisfied when me same thing happened the next day. a asked a lady who. had ever nw children whether two bottles of miiK would hurt the baby. She thought something must be wrong 1' tius. and I had a good cry over him that night, but he. was so cute -ana rosy and plump and good that J -uJJ not believe he was much sick, and just kept on giving him two bottles for W?.S- t M.npnod to go back -men one aay V"V'."" T trot to the mU!"?" rnt and a dog, but Ignatius guessed a ca - anu grandma shook her head. n,r the tiny fists doubled up. o mouth Qn the black snake that the milk bottle, and a a, t-fast t-fast as it could. .oniFhet. iRnatiua "d grandma?" was -What did " atn he could say his first question. n- , anything h w t did do it. -I don't kao "ur papa up and to managed to f the nouse. Your run Bcreanwna , o and gQt up ln grandpa was ri.x a ffrcat biff thing, time to kill rnc . ben fcteaiing all seven feet a but your my baby s wn. abmJt it; your papa did not baby papa f" Ignatius looked very sol- The "tjbej down from grand-enwi. grand-enwi. "rcked kitty forgivingly, ate ma's lap. mun; and after that Ignis Ig-nis bread 3" be !ike the manly boy natius trieo . his papa .as- . ; . : |