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Show Why She Could Not Tell. "What was the text, .T-Jie?" asked Mr. Trlbbles, as bis wife came homo from church. Mrs. Trlbbles had to confess that she had forgotten It, "Or, rather," sbo added, "I lost it In fact, I didn't get It." "When I fall to remember the text you always want to know why. What was tho reason that you didn't get It?" "Something happened that drove it froni my mind " "What was It that happened?" "Well, if you must know." said hts wife, rubbing her nose, "just as the preacher was about to give out tho text a moth flew along right In front of me. You know well enough what a i woman does when she 6ees a moth. Of course, I couldn't clap jny handg l there in church and crush it between them, but I 8prd out my handkerchief, handker-chief, made a ootlon, and folded It together. T 1 pressed It tightly. "I got tbe mcth, but I lost tho text" 4 Youth's Companion. |