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Show Clipped For Fun. ,' M She was newly married and did not ,' M know a little bit about either house- :M keeping or shopping, and she was glv- M ing her first order. It was a crusher; M but the grocer was a clever man, and VH wasused to all kinds of orderB and could ' interpret them easily. H "I want two pounds of parallzed sug- H ar," she began. H "Ves'm. Anythlngclsc?" H "Two tins of of condemned milk." H "Yes'm." M He set dowm pulverised sugar and condensed milk. H "A bag of fresh salt. Re sure fresh." H "Yes'm. What next?" H "A pound of desecrated codfish." H "Nothing more man? We have some H nice horso raddlsh just iu." "No," sho said. "It, would bo of no H use to us; we don't keep a horse." H Then the grocer sat down and fanned H himself with a washboard, although H the temperature was freezing. -jH |