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Show Her Revenge Was Sweet. " 'I don't mind being told I'm stout,' sho said, 'I nm stout and I might as woll acknowledge It. But there Is a wrong way to do everything and thero Is a way of telling a porson that ho or Bhe Is stout which always grates on my nerves.' The speaker paused and looked over her auditors In a manner which plainly Indicated that this remark re-mark was but tho moral to a fablo soon to follow. Nor were tho listeners listen-ers disappointed . " 'Every onco in a while,' pursueu tho narrator who thero was no denying deny-ing really was stout 'I haven't tlmo to go all tho way to my own church and so drop In at tho ono across tho Btjoct. Thero I always seo Mrs. Prat-tleton. Prat-tleton. She weighs fifty pounds moro thnn I do If sho weighs nn ounce, but sho seems serenely unconscious of It and always greets mo after tho servlco with a honeyed smllo and tho re mark: "You'ro fatter than when you were here last." '"Tho repetition made me rather angry, so a month ago I got a scat Just by her and watched hor closely. Thero was a good deal of kneeling dono and I confess that I dreaded tho attempt so much that tho first time I didn't get upon my knees. Then I happened to notlco Mrs. Prattleton. She wasn't kneollng either nnd I suddenly realized real-ized that this was simply because she could not, When tho tlmo camo ng"aln to kncol I got down tho wholo way, hard ns It was, nnd then looked squarely Into Mrs. Prattletori.-' face. She blushed and Bquirmcd and at onco trlod her lovol best to follow my ox-amplo. ox-amplo. But sho had to give up; It was no udo; sho wns too fat. From that day to this sho hasn't told mo I'm growing 'stouter In fact, sho hasn't spoken to me nt all.' " |
