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Show I Comforting. A lady who had recently moxed to ihe suburbs was very fond of her first brood of chickens. Going out one afternoon, aft-ernoon, she left the household in charge "f her 8-year-old bov. Before her re- lurn a thunderstorm came up. The I youngster forgot the chicks during the storm, and was dismayed, after it I passed, to find that half of them had J been drowned. Though fearing thej 1 wrath to come, he thought best to I make a clean breast of the calamity, I rather than leave it to be discovered. "Mama." he said, contritely, when J his mother had returned "Mama, six of the chickens are dead." ' "Deadl" cried his mother. "Six: How did they die?" The boy saw his chance. 1"I think I think they died happy," he isa4d. Harper's Weekly. V " ' ' I ' ' |