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Show Her First Order. She was newly married, and did i not know a little bit about housekeep- lng or shopping, and she was giving her very first order. "I want 10 pounds of paralyzed sugar," su-gar," she began with a businesslike air. "Yes'm. Anything else?" replied the grocer who knew his business. "Two cans of condemned milk." "Yes'm." He set down the "pulverized sugar'' and "condensed milk." "Anything more, ma'am?" "A pound of desecrated cocoanut.'" He wrote glibly "dessieated cocoa-nut." cocoa-nut." "Yes'm. What next?" ' "A bag of fresh salt. Be sure It's fresh." "Nothing more, ma'am? We have some nice horseradish." "No," she said; "it would he of no use to us. We don't keep a horse." |