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Show Limit Reached. 4 "I don't mind folks borrowing," said Miss Hodges, plaintively, to an old j friend who was paying her a visit, I "but I've got an awful trying woman j for a neighbor Just now Sho bor rows such qi. or things I'm most out o' pattenco with her." "Shears and brooms nnd the flour-sifter flour-sifter and Ironing board, I s'pose," said tho guest, who had known llfo j " Jn n country town. "Mercy me, I don't count such things!" said Miss Hodges. "Nor my best umbrella nor my carving knlfo. I can make shift to get on without 'oru for a while any time. Dut when she camo over to borrow ray diary the Iothor day, bo's she could kocp account of the weather and her hens' eggs and so on till her husband camo back from California, sho having given him hers to put down bis expenses and sights in, so's sho could copy her record In from my book In the right place I declare I called It tho cap-sheaf!" ) Youth's Companion. :' |