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Show She Was a Peach. Three-year-old Mary Ellen demands a reason for everything and some of the reasons are mother's sudden inspirations. inspi-rations. Sometimes she passes them on to other children. The other afternoon after-noon a group of children was talking to the wee miss, all giving her that sort of confection known as "taffy." Mary Ellen ate it with relish. Suddenly Sud-denly she turned to the child nearest her, "Do you think I'm pretty? Dou't you think I'm sweet?" she asked He answered in the nllirtnative. "Well," she smiled sweetly, "ray mamma found me in a peach basket." Two or three of the children giggled hut twelve-year-old Arthur sprang gallantly gal-lantly to the rescue. "No wonder you're such a little peach," he returned. |