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Show WHAT SHE CALLED IT. Little Girl's Definition Not at Alt a Bad One. Margaret Is still a few months under un-der 3 years of age. hut she Is old enough to bo observant and to 'put two and two together. For a good part of her short llfo her father has been away from home, and sho has more familiarity, theroforo, with letters let-ters and letter writing, probably, than most llttlo girls. Sho had never been pcrmlttoJ to use Ink, but had often watched tho older ones writing with It nnd using th blotter. Tho other day sho was wrltlrsr as usual with a pencil, or making the marks on tho paper which sho calls wilting, when sho saw a blottor lying on tho desk out of her roach. Of ccjirso she wanted It, but sho did not know the name of It. Sho thought abn'it It a little, and thon said, "Daddy, "Dad-dy, give me that please." "(Jive jou what?" asked her fathor. Sho pointed n fat linger nt tho blotter blot-ter and implied. "Cllvo me that Ink nap-ki.v nap-ki.v " Harper's Magazine. |