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Show HARD LIFE OF BACHELOR SEAL. Has Nothing Like So ood a Time as Human Co art. "This skin," said the furrier, "come from a young seal bachelor, n youth Ignorant of love and of life." "How do you know?" the lady asked. "Hy Its fineness, Its perfection," ho replied. "The pile, ou will note, is like closecnt velvet. Only bachelor sealskins have such a pile. "Tho bachelor seal," ho went on, "has a rather sud life. The big bull seals in the seal Islands have each a household of 15 or 20 Wives, but the jouiiK bachelors must herd by themselves. Let ono of them attempt to marry, and straightway a bull slays him. .Not till he Is big enough to fight and conquer u hull not till ho Is 11 or 1G enis old can ho know tho do-light do-light of settling down In a homo of bis own. "He Is not like tho human bachelor, tho favorite or tho chorus girls, tho reveler In all sorts of club luxuries; but he leads a haid, ascetic, celibate life, only In the end, us like as not, to make a lady a very fine coat. All tho very fine ocats, 1 repeat, are mado from the unhappy bachelor seals." ' |