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Show Kind Nrlslibnrs. When Miss Jenkins, nfter spending fifty-six years lu the city of her birth, decided to buy a small farm In the country, she determined to miss none of the delights of farming life. "I'm going to bnvo n steady horse and two cows and some hens," she announced an-nounced to her brother, to whom sho proudly displayed her new property. "Tho Adams boy from the next house, will help mo about everything. Ho'll drive the cows and milk and teach mo to harness, nnd of courso I shall feed the hens nnd tbo little pig." "The llttlo pig!" echoed her brother. "Do you proposo to keep a pig? And where, I should llko to know?" "Thero's room for n small pig pert back of the burn, away from the roud nnd everything," said Miss Jenkins, calmly. "Mr. Adams has somo cunning cun-ning llttlo pigs, and thnt Is what I wish. And I nsked the Adnins boy! If ho thought when tho pig hud out-' grown the pen I could and some ono to take him and glvo mo another llttlo ono In exchange, and he seemed suro I could. You've no Idea, brother, bow obliging the people nro here lu tha country." Youth's Companion. i |