Iron County Record | 1903-08-14 | Page 7 | The Little One's Reasoning

THE LITTLE ONE'8 REASONING, Natural Deduction Made by Physician's Physi-cian's DaughUr. Dr. W. T. Bull tells this story about a country surgeon ho onco had threo leg amputation cases la a week. The unusual number of serious and similar operations naturally caused talk In tbo surgeon's household and his little daughter was crcatly interested. A few days after tho laBt operation the surgeon's wlfo and daughter woro rummaging rum-maging In tho attic. In a trunk was found a daguerreotype dopictlng a girl of about eight years of age. Tho portrait, por-trait, through a peculiarity of pose, showed only one leg of the subject, tho other being doubled up under her In a manner truly feminine "Whoso picture pic-ture Is that, mamma?" askod tho surgeon's sur-geon's daughter. "Mine. It was taken when I was a child not much older than you nro now." "Did you know papa then?" "No, dear. Why do you ask?" "I thought mayoo you did, 'cauBo you'vo only got ono leg." Now York Times