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Show WAS NOT NECESSARY TO ASK - Man Wins Bet as to Sex of Lusty-Lunged Lusty-Lunged Youngster on Steamer. Tho boat had cotton welt under way, and tho excursionists, having mado themselves comfortablo In their various nooks, were beginning to think that, after all, this world may have Its good points, when they were suddenly "brought to" with a Jerk. Tho disturbance that made them sit up straight In their chairs and threatened threat-ened to dlssomlnato oven tho humidity humid-ity was a specimen of tho volley of bound that can lssuo only from tho lungs of nn Infant that Is very angry as woll as vory healthy. " Somo one brlgntor than the others suggested that It bo taken bolow to see tho "horsle." "That won't do any good," said tho femalo constltutent of a couplo sitting sit-ting by tho rail; "tho only way to stlonce that baby would bo to drop him overboard." "Him!" repeated her companion Indignantly; In-dignantly; "thnt's a girl. No male on earth would havo the nerve to keep up a howl like that In a place Ilka this, and In tho face of so much ro-sontment. ro-sontment. It's a coming suffragist, that's what It Is I" The woman looked at him pityingly. pitying-ly. "No little girl baby would have the strongth for that nolso," she said. "I'll bet you anything you say ngalnst two pounds of your fudge Hint It's a girl," said the man; nnd "Token; wo'll ask its mothor," replied tho woman hastily, ns tho familiar noise indicated tho return of tho un-appeased un-appeased Infant. Hut tho next InBtnnt and tho next ono and tho ono after that brought no wnlls. And then there was a rush of wlld-oyed excursionists to tho sceno of death or distraction, they know not which. And thon the womon looked at ench other aolf-consclously, nnd tho men looked at each other wisely. For the mother, with no otbor idea than that of patting her hair Into place, had stopped beforo a mirror. And tho erslwhllo demon of noise, with its head coyly on one side, wns smiling and cooing and gurgling at its own reflection. Tho man who had mado tho bet slapped himself on tho knee. "I win," ho said, and laughed. And the woman nodded In affirmation affirma-tion and sighed. |