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Show NOT THE TIME FOR a'sMOKE Old Lady, Filled Up With "Car- fridges," Was In Natural Fear of an Explosion. A robust old woman In tho mountains moun-tains of north Georgia wub HI for tho first tlmo In her Ufo and a doctor was sent for. Partly by persuasion and partly by force, tho physician induced his patient to swallow somo big quinine qui-nine capsuleB a slmplo enough operation, opera-tion, which, however, scared tho old woman almost to death. Sho was soon nblo to Bit up and her daughter thought Bho would glvo tho convalescent conva-lescent a treat. Sho took her mother's moth-er's corncob plpo rrom tho "sholt" or mantel, filled It with tobacco, nnd picking up a llvo coal between two sticks, Btarted with It toward tho bed. "Ma," she said, brightly, "Jes look what I got for ye." "Olt away from mo, Sary," sho screnmed In terror. "Tako away dat flrol Tako hit away I Don't yor know I's done plum filled up wl' cnrtrldges?" Chicago Ledger. |