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Show Unwise Combination. To the mind of Mrs. Abigail Jennings Jen-nings there was a sort of disloyalty In admitting to any outsider that a native of Wlllowby could be really eccentric. As for anything beyond eccentricity, Mrs. Jennings would never have admitted ad-mitted It, even In tho case of Miss Rachel Gregg, who was frankly called crazy by the summer visitors. "Now, Mrs. Jennings," said one of tho boarders, "do you really mean that you've never known Miss Gregg to do anything that you'd call crazy?" "No, I haven't," said Mtb. Jennings, with n Arm and unyielding expression about her prominent chin. "Why, what do you think of her sending that bag of eggs over to the Corners1 to Mrs. Cole, right in the box with her laundry work, and never telling tell-ing the stage-driver, and letting him 1 throw the box right off?" inquired the summer boarder. "Mrs. Colo says there's one shirtwaist she'll novcr be ublo to wear again." "Well," said Mrs. Jennings, calmly, "I should say about that as I have about a number of little things Rachel does and haB done. She may lack In wisdom and forethought now and again but then, who doesn't, I'd like to know?" Youth's Companion. |