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Show t "amlllar. Six-) ear-old Mario Is a minister's daughter, and Christmas, 1004. found half a dozen dolls under tho Christmas Christ-mas tree. , There they stood during Christinas week, when, realizing that six or seven dollB In addition to other oth-er toys wns too much of a good thing, mother, who had tho looknhead temperament, tem-perament, resolved to kidnap ono of tho family and put It by for tho next year To all nppenranccs e schemo wns carried through successfully, ns no Inquiries were mni'e. So, on Christmas, Christ-mas, 19UD, tho last venr's baby re-appenred re-appenred under tho new tree. Next morning Marie, arcoi'iimnlcd by tho usual number of grown-ups, was taken tak-en to view tho tree. Fixing her eyes on tho iihscnteo and holding her dimpled dim-pled chin with a chubby hand, nftor ii period of deep thought sho remarked, remark-ed, In a puzzled tono: "Whero tho dickens havo 1 seen that faco beforo?" |