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Show A Washout. Elsie arrived home one evening with a beautiful silver-mounted walking: stick and her younger sister was ans-ious ans-ious to know whence it came. But Elsie would not tell, so the curious one asked her father to obtain the Information for her. "I found it," Elsie poutingly said to her father, "floating on the waves oue lay when I wa:-l bathing." F.ut two days later Elsie's sister said ' Elsie, "Come, tell me! What Is bis name?" Name?" repeated Elsie blankly, "what do you mean?" "I mean, dear," said Elsie's sister, "that last night I tried to make that stick of yours float in the bath, and well, darling, it sank !" |