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Show Heads She Lost. The room was full of little girls in pink slips and pigtails. They sat in rows at wooden desks, as quiet as mice. Over them presided a sweet-faced sweet-faced damsel, stern withal. The lesson concerned coins of the realm, and they had been through the entire range, from pennies to silver dollars. One little miss, however, was singularly inattentive. in-attentive. Her gaze was fixed upon a playful sparrow on the window-sill, and she had no thought for coins. Suddenly Sudden-ly the teacher pounced upon her.. Placing Plac-ing a half-dollar on the pupil's desk, she demanded "What's that?" "Heads," came the instantaneous reply. |