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Show Win wij.ii-i.iiiiB.miiiiiniii i mummmmmmmam ' A Queer Little Quaker Custom. I Near (ho city of I'hU-dolphla, thf.ro I aro a few qunlnt old Tillage uhcro Qunkors and llunbar customs nro to'b'o found jnit a they were in the day of (food old WlUUm IV no. You liavn no idea flow odd some l tbcsn citstoinT aro. A tovr tUi- ttffu n ffew Yolf lnily was tr vellnpf thrtivirrh one i f tHoka littlo r1Uttro -ml L in tlrc.l. utio stoiified at an I . . . (n ih n di re's. 1m u.'vlmi U t.i i mine out n Mule Kir'. ilri'M 1 i u -y nil i'nlleil her t . i I i nu.l Ii ivu a up of i . .t 1 i n - Wli n tlo liuiy liJ l iii ,i of Iiot rvrx:i.hi-6iit an i tnrtivrt t f". alio oi?ercl the old-fokV ionod mnlil In fray aonro candy oat of a sueutmcot box which lic carried at her holt, "Xo, I thanlc thee " sakt the Httlft ono bashfully. t,l" thank tliee tmt no." 'Herwe Inlte tho candy," urred Iho laiiy, "I want to give It to you hecnuao you Unvti Ijwii no Ulml to me. for n minute the littlo one honltatcd. Bhoputnut her hand, mlf yloklinj; to temptation, and then draw It Uaolt ix-a-olutcly, an she nahl. "I thank tlne. nn I may not ta'fe tho candy n.iw, xoniiM 'when theei naked mc fir ,t. if 1 would have wme, 1 told thee no, and now I may not take any until thi-i' ootm- nome other day." N. Y. I.mlfftr |