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Show Girl and Grammar. "Out in my town," said a Kentucky editor, "everybody doesn't use as correct cor-rect English as they do in Boston, just as in Boston everybody doesn't drink as good liquor as we do in Kentucky. "Not long ago a young woman from the Hub came out our way to spend some time on a ( farm a mile or two out of town. She had met the farmer's folks somewhere and came out to try her hand at chicken raising, being an enterprising young lady. "One day she came into the store of one of our merchants with half a dozen chickens tied together by the feet and laid them down on a sack while she negotiated a sale. The merchant observed that they were in rather an insecure position. '"Will they lay there, Miss Julia?' he asked, with never a thought of his grammar since he left school. " 'Oh, no,' she replied, half blushing and half reproving; 'they are all roosters.' roost-ers.' "Since then the merchant has been trying to coax Miss Julia to quit chicken raising and go to school teaching, teach-ing, and the rest of us are becoming more particular In our language when the young lady is around." New York Herald. 1 i |