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Show This Happened In Boston. "Cynthia, will you recito, 'Mary Had jj a Llttlo Lamb' for us?" asked tho I kind old gentleman. , r "I do not care to, much as I should t like to obllgo you," replied tho little 1 girl with tho horn-rimmed eyeglasses. "As a matter of fact, tho poem has little, lit-tle, if any, literary value, and ln addition addi-tion is not truo to life as it exists today. to-day. Under tho constriction in trade, duo to tho meat trust, Mary could not own an entire lamb. Sho might havo had a chop, but beyond that the poet's I imagination muBt bo blamed." Phil- adelphla Public Ledger. I |