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Show Their Christmas Task "If I hnve to lick another stamp." dc-Ls.red Tcssle Tongue. "I absolutely won't have enough energy to talk, and that's my chief business." "If I hnve to scratch off another address." scolded Hannah Hand, "I shan't be able to life a finger for a month." "If I have to give another glance at an address book. I shall go blind." muttered I'.file Even. There wits r. lone pause when nothing noth-ing was accomplished. "If you all don't stop fussing nnd complaining," stated Bessie P.rnin In a linn voice, "1 won't think another thought: And then where would you be? I run you all and have ten tim'S the work; if you can't obey orders for u few hours to address Christmas cards, you're n pretty P'Kr lot. Now let's start in once more, nnr1 not n word out of you. There's that D'ce old Mrs. Hopkins s-he ni'iM lnia b card If nobody else does'' j So Tessie Tongue licked her forty j eighth stamp, and Hannah Hand wroti-i her forty-eighth card .ind Effie Eyei looked nt her forty-eighth address, land Bessie F.rnin --well, she kept or thinking! Martha Banning Thomas. . 12S. Wejlern Newspaper L'nioQI |