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Show NOT THE TIME FOR A SMOKE Old Lady, Filled Up With "Cartridges," "Car-tridges," Was in Natural Fear of an Explosion. A robust old woman in the mountains moun-tains of north Georgia was ill for the first time in her life and a doctor was sent for. Partly by persuasion and partly by force, the physician induced his patient to swallow some big quinine qui-nine capsules a simple enough operation, opera-tion, which, however, scared the old woman almost to death. She was soon able to sit up and her daughter thought she would give the convalescent conva-lescent a treat. She took her mother's moth-er's corncob pipe from the "shelf" or mantel, filled it with tobacco, and picking up a live coal between two sticks, started with it toward the bed. "Ma," she said, brightly, "jes' look what I got fer ye." "Git away from me, Sary," she screamed in terror. "Take away dat fire! Take hit away! Don't yer know I's done plum filled up wi' cartridges?" - Chicago Ledger. |