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Show CHRISTMAS TREES, THEIR HIGH COST flflB car was full, beautifully full. " OL almost to the obliteration of the foliage-screened occupants. 1 he were proud and happy. . Until stopped. At sight of the con - stable the driver threw up his hands i "All broke," he called facetious y- "speed fine, trespass fine and taking some worthless shooting fine. All gone. But what now?" The owner of the adjoining estate stenned forward. "Come here, Burleson," he sad to his gardener. "Look over the trees n this car and tell what they cost. looked at a noieouo - - ,Golden flr, rare." he sa d. Paid 115- b, "Say" exposulated the man at the w wheS -1 won't stand for that. I cn c, y Christmas trees on the pub r market for fifty cents to two dollars. r "-These are rare trees stolen fron nrlvate estate," sternly. Go on. f "Two English holly, with berrle , $20 T pvramlda. box, $10; sLx small t yew's, $30. That's all. except limb , vlnS've and the limbs-say constable. . more,'' "A court would make It tar in . i A com i. -There would be at theft. Better deal with tne you can." sullenly- "When work? he asneu J ."Today. Tt is only eleven. You got your load easily." "But It's Christmas, and- "That's why 1 make It light I pay you a dollar an hour 1 .wrnrli"" ' i l t-lit-ap That is why two ladles ,w hours on Christmas peel d and washing vegetables, In D aprons, while one '""in a stable, and another forke Vere And when they left, two w left behind as collateral. We t tlve was a n'"""6'1,"" the las. able Jail sentence. It vas that decided for work was Once out of wt the .topped and the driver th, evv drantatically toward 1 xen. 1 "Never no more from ,,e d path of a formed car, ne costs too much.' - ran Bweet. fnion.) I ' ,. (. 192. Western N-w'P" A&ii - |