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Show When She It Heard Of. "Chunka hunk," romarkod tho Dowagor Empress of China, 'come horo!" Tho keeper of tho royal embroidery embroid-ery scissors approached, "It has boon roported to mo," continued con-tinued tho empress, sternly," "that you havo referred to mo as an old cat. Is this BO?" "it Is, O Sister of tho Green Chccso Moon," ropllod Chunka Limit, bravely, brave-ly, "but only In tho most complimentary compliment-ary way. Tho nowspnpers havo you killed so often, you know, that you must havo as many lives ns a feline!" "Um!" remarked tho empress, loss stornly, "that's all right, thon. I thought perhaps my finger nails woro beginning to wear off." Gazing proudly at that budge of no-work roalty, sho relapsed into tho Innocuous desuetude from which tho last cable news had brought her. |