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Show GOAT'S :i'l.K FOR THE TW.INS Out- Fatl tr Boucht a Billy Instead of a Nanny Specimen. A younsr husband in the west end is (he proud father of twins. The babies haw bcci'i ill for some timo nnd the ,oung man has been greatly great-ly worried about them, llo wns preparing lo bundle the mother and tho twins into n south-bound sleeper sleep-er tho other day when he inct,hi3 old family physicinn, quite by accident acci-dent and told him of his plight, says tho SI. Louis Republic. Tho practitioner offered n suggestion immediately which he said would eliminate separating the family nnd euro tho twins, lie told the young father lo get n goal and feed tho babies goat milk six times n day as long ns they would take (his sort of nourishment. That very day- tho young father called up n friend at National Slock Yards, III., f.nd after chatting chat-ting a few minutes about business, gave this order: "Send a gont out to my house; I wnilt it for my hoys." Tho stockyards friend went mechanically me-chanically about tho order, and tho goat was delivered within a few hours. That night tho young father met his wife at the door with n kiss, lo hear that the babies were no better. bet-ter. "Hut they will he all right soon," ho assured her. "Did tho gdut come?" "Yes, it did," said the wife, "but 1 promptly sent it back." "Sent it back!" ho exclaimed. "Why, wo want it for the boys, tho doctor said." "Well, you dunce," wifio scolded, "it was the wrong kind of a goat." |