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AND DEALER IN old iron,,ragn, &c., &c., Richmond Hill. All orders promptly attended to. Here is a domestic drama froml Paris. Ayoung girl was about to‘ be married to :t journeyman carpen- ter, whose suit was by no means agreeable to her. She had refused and protested against the match, but her father was inexorable on the hub- ject,and insisted on the marriage, though the mother would willineg have yielded. At length the bride- elcct appeared resigned to her fate, and tho-father. pointing out the hap- py result ot his firmness to his wife, triumphantly exclaimed, " I told you 80.” Next day, however, the poor girl, having left a letter at home ex- plaining the cauSe of her action, jumped of, the Bridge of Austerlitz ;§int0 the Seine. She was, however, ‘zsaved, andif'carried home by two sailors. ‘ The father returned home, just as the dripping girl was placed in safety beside the paternal hearth, when the mother, with perhaps more point than discretion, simply observ- cd, “ I told you so.” Not long since, an old man diedisud- i (lenly in the streets of a large city} Some one recognized him as being em- ployed at the gas-works in the neighbor- hood promptly identified‘ him. Two of the number were ‘d'eputed toconvey the sad intelligence to his‘wife, who took the‘tidings very coolly, and replied that her husband was at that moment up stairs in bed, and he shortly made his appearance, much to their astonishment. The body 'Was then removed to the work-house mortuary, where some four" teen of the officials identified it as that of a. pauper who had been an inmate of of the workhouse over a year, and intel- ligence of his death was at once sent to his daughters; onefif the sons-indew immediately recognized his father-in- law ; the daughters followed, hothswearâ€" ing at the 'ih'qnestfthut the body was thehpi’, their father. They gave him a decent burial, paid the undertaker and retnmedhome, finding there a letter from their father, written the day be- :fore, informing them he was staying “with some friends in Devonshire, and in,_ health. I do not think there "iii 011 record another case so remarkable. The funny _ part of it ié,‘ that the sons- inâ€"law are now' trying to get their money back from the undertaker, who, howeyer, declines to refund. Manufactured by If a saloowkeepe'r gets rich it is be. came he makes many good bar-gains‘ January 15, 1873. November 12, 1872. J. H. SANDERSON, ETERINARY SURGEON, Graduata of USTARD’S Pills are the bqstjillg you PATENT DI EIHUI S i» N. ADAM II. MEYERS, JR., PIKUCLA [\LlA'L‘lUIN- THE KING OF OILS Mistaken Identity. F. WHITLOCK, D. C. O’BRIEN, 8. JAMES, Said So. H. MUSTARD, Proprietor, Inge) mll 756-]y 7474f A LOSS TO THE PROFESSION. “ If you'll only wait till we get to the end of rho-journey, Emma,” said Mr. Sherwood to his young wife, as they were steaming along eastward, “you may kiss all the little beggars that come along. \Ve’re more than half way home now. In twuntyâ€"fuur hours I shall have the unspeakable delight of putting you safely in your mother‘s arms. The rest of t-liejoui'ney is a. more bugatelle." “ That's the very reason it was safet to keep away from it," said her hus- band. “ How do you know what ailod it 1" “ Now don't, I beg of you, suppose any more hon-om ; you’ve been suppos- ing them all the way. Heavens and earth 1" he added, “ How glad ‘I shall be to get; to your mother's! It, was madâ€" uesm to attempt such ajoumey in your state of health. Thank heaven, we’ve passed the dangerous portion of the route. We shall have no trouble now “The poor little baby looked so wretcherlly illl" murmured Mrs. Sher- wood. ’ “0h, suppose it was something in- fectious ?” said Mrs. Sherwood, turning very pale. ’ tillâ€"â€"H Mr. Sherwood was interrupted by his wife grasping his arm suddenly, and pointing to the car ahead of them. It looked, through the glass window of the door, as if it had been suddenly seized with a drunken fit, and was tilt- ing to and fro in the most, extraordinary manner. There was a grating noise, a' lurch forward, and the train stopped. The accident was a very slight one, resulting in only one deathâ€"that of a cow that had strayed upon the track. The train was detained a few hours, and a doctor sent for from a neighbor- ing village to remedy a sprain in the engineer’s wrist. When the physician came he was called immediately into one of the cars to seee a lady that had fainted from ter- ror when the accident occurred, and was still insensible. He succeeded with difiiculty in restoring her to conscious- ness, and than, taking the husband aside, advised a halt. by the way. “ If it is possible for you to get your baggage from the train,” said the doc- tor, “ «lo so at once. I will return shortâ€" ly with a carriage. W'e'll take your wife to the village, and get her to bed as scon as possible. Her system has re- ceived a nervous shock that will require attention in ler presmt state of healhhl ‘- I won’t answex for her life if she is not under the complete influence of an anodyne to-night,” A delay of a. few hours may enable her to continue her journey." .â€"... q‘r “ Gracious Heavens l" doctor,” cried Mr. Sherwood, "in twenty-four hours she’ll be safe in her mother's house." a An. hour later and Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood were installed in the best room of the country hotel at [{ivingtou. It was a great, grim, repelling room at the best, full of draughts, and suggest- ive of mould. Emma. looked very little and wan in the middle of the immense featherbed on the four-poster, and her husband sighed dismally when he thought of the cozy little bed~chamber awaiting her in the East. But he car- ried out to the letter the orders of the doctor, who seemed just then the only friond that he could rely upon in the world. “ A night of uninterrupted rest,” said the doctor, “ will do wonders for her-” And Mr. Sherwood never closed his eyes till morning. Threatening to murâ€" der any one who hanged a. door or shuf- fled in the passage, . and liberally dis~ tributing considerations for perfect quiet, the house that night was still as the grave. This was the more easily to accomplish, as they were theonly guests at the hotel, . When the doctor called in the morning he pronounced Mrs. Sherwood much better, and even advis- ed her to get up to breakfast, upon which her husband asked, rather faintâ€" ly, whether he knew anything about the connection of the trains. The doc- tor replied gravely, that perhaps they would talk of that matter the next day. Mr. Sherwood bazarded an observa- tion to the effect that it‘was singular how a train could whistle around the corner of a. 'perpandicular mountain, leap over dilapidated bridges, and fly through dismal gorges, under crumbling bowldors, to come to grief at last abso- lutely crawling through a commonplace valley. .“ We don't; consider it commonplace,” said the doctor. “ It's a. pretty place when you come to know it." “I don’t want to know it,” said Mr. Sherwood ; )fIb’s too pastoral. I'huve an objection 120 cows, particularly when the stray on railway tracks." VVhefi the doctdr Went away he re- commended .another night of perfect rest. “ I think them?" he added, "‘ we may Safely talk aboubthe trains.” But although Mr. Sherwood redoub- led his threat and considerabinns, that night there was no rest) :Mall, and to- ward morning the feeble pipe of an in- faguh was heard in the great grim room at Rivington, Thg hair of the young father almost stood upright. I " My God I" he cried, “ it’s alive!" “ So it is I” said the' doéfior, himself somewhat astonished. ‘- What's to be done now '1’ said Mr. Sherwood, looking about him distract edly." said the lwdlad y, Mrs. Kewhum, who had kirflly aided tbém in this e’xv tremity, and was now miamsa af uh» RICHMOND IILLL, ONTARIO, CANADA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1874 situation, “ and a nurse is to be got. It; don’t stand to reason because it's a. pre- mature it’s agoing to die. We put my Mary J am into a tea-pot, and look at her now! If the doctor’ll step round to Mrs. Barrett’s on his Way home, she’ll be here in a jiffy !" v When Mrs. Barrett collie, Mr. Sher- wood wai surprised to find her a young md' pretty widow. All his ideas of nurses had been formed upon the im- mortal Mrs, Gamp. It was a relief to him to find Mrs. Barrett only resemb- ling thac inimitable character in a cer- tain selfish garrnlity. A few days elapsed, and Mr. Shor- wood was beginning to feel a cheerful resignation to the situation. . The tiny mite of mortality seemed tothrive under the patronage of the landlady and the care of the pretty widow. All aeeemed to be progressing as favorably as could be expected, when one morning the (loo- tor looked grave. Mrs. Sherwood com- plained of unusual symptoms. “ I know," she S’tld, "‘ just what ails me, but I’m afraid to tell." And she looked at her husband piteously. “Speak out, my dear," cried Mn. Sherwood with admirable philosophy; “ I'm prepared {91‘ anything." ' “Nevertheless he sank into a. chair and groaned when she declared that she had caught the infection from the child in the car. ‘ " " What child? what infection 3" cried the doctor. Then Mr. Sherwood told the doctor how his wife. would kiss the sick baby in the train. “ Nonsense !” said the doctor ; ” it isn't at all likely it was smallâ€"pox." At this direful word the pretty widow started and turned pale. Getting out of her rocking chair, she placed the littln bundle of flannel containing a baby in the bed and went. out; of the room. \Vhen Dr. Anderson reached home that night he found, as usual, a cheerful blaze of hickory on his hearth ; a cup of deliciously hot and strong tea and a plate of golden-brown toast lay waiting for him He was a great stalwart six- footer, but he doated on dainties like a child. and his eyes shone benignly on a dish of lemon jelly quivering in the lump light. Dr. Anderson owed all this luxury and comfort to his housekeeper, Hester Wright. And after all this‘peram bulation we Come to the heroine at our ‘story. She was neither young nor beautifulâ€"$3.. simply .1; plain old lnajg. kw ALL cAnlle y can: UL“ nun“). 1. k \ :5. am”: .7. U , V :7 - »;< - _2~- ~11: \Vhen the doctor’s mother was alive, and Hester was her trusty and efficient handmaiden, that good lady was wont of a Saturday afternoon to declare that she Was an excellent good girl, and to be good was far better than to be beau- tiful. " Handsome is as handsome does, my dear, quoth the old lady. Never- theless, upon looking in the glass and contrasting the face she saw there with the faces of some of the rustic beauties about her, .Heuter felt that, however good and excellent she might hope to be, it would be useless for her to aspire to be handsome. This was a great grief to Hester, as she was romantic. Nobody would have dreamed of such a thing to look at her placid features, her somewhat stolid ex- pression, and the monotonous regularity with which she, performed her house- hold duties. A complete absence of glow and color gave a washed-out ap- pearance to her gray eyes and yellow hair ; and although she had what Shakespeare thought was an excellent thing in womenâ€"~“ a soft, low voice”â€" it was so seldom heard that it was only a negative charm. In those days "help" of Hester’s kind was allowed a seat at the table and a. comparative position of equality in the household. This was the more agreeable in Hester's case as she was an orphan, and quite friendless. Mrs. Anderson taught her to read and write and sew, and made her an adept at pre- serves and pisstry. She also made her a. companion, as Hester was'an excel- lent listener. It would be safesto say that all the affection Mrs. Anderson could spare from her son was given to Hestér; but that was very little. The old lady adored her son, and did her best to make everybody else adore him. She succeeded pretty well with a great many people, but excellently well with Hester. When Norman came home from col- lege, Hester expected to find him an Apollo, and she was not disappointed. The rough curls of his somewhat abund~ and black hair seemed wonderful to the girls ; Grecian and godlike was his struig ht but shabby nose, and altogether imperial was the frank and open coun- tenance of the lad. And when she found that he was neither pnggish nor conceited, but rather inclined to fellow- ship with her, she immediately set up a shrine and worshiped him. Not that she ever hoped for a requitel walthough she had read and delightedin the story of King Cophet'ua and the beggarâ€"maid. The maid was beautiful, as befitted-the story ; and Hester said to herself, with a. somewhat bitter decision, that beauty was. as sweet and desirable as rank and riches. But she had none of these ; so that was an end of the matter. This did not hinder Hester from enjoying her idolatry. Even When Mrs. Ander- son, ‘disooursing eloquently on the 'Ettriv hute's of her son, redicted for him. a brilliant marriage, sister’s afiection for him was too exalted to be tainted with envy. But the young doctor did not seem to improve his oppormitiea ; end although many a young heiress fell in his way, and many a young beauty came under his notice, he was apprecia- tive and courteous to all, but devoted to none. The cares of his profession seem- ed to fill his mind, and the love of his mother appeared to satisfy his heart. As the years rolled on, Hester allowâ€" ed faint hope to dawn within her that this happy state or ail-Airs would last forever. Waxing old in years, M rs. Anderson died ; but not before she had told Hvster just how to darn her son's socks, the amount, of strength required for his tea, and the peculiarity of his preferences for certain vegetables. “And be sure, Hester,” she added solemnly, “ to make hia shirt loose about the neck. I’ve known a tight collar to give him a headache for a day. l And now send my aim to me, for I an not long to be with him. V - Hester went wee-ping out of the room, her heart bursting with grief and grati- tude. What morn could the dying woman have done for her than to give her darling into Hester's care to be her sacxjed charge henceforth and forever? The tall, whited tombstone over Mrs. Andeison't head had been tarnished a. little with mildew ; the abundant locks of her son wem sprinkled with gray; Hester had quite lost even what the French call the beauty of youth, and was a plain old vmaid on that night when the doctor came home and found his splendid blaze of hickory. his tea and toast, and a new copy of the Lancet all nicely cut and ready for him. He took off his greatcoat and his gloves, and sat himself down to enjoy his dain- ties and his chat with his friend Hes- ter. Who would have thought her capa- ble of a romance? so prim and so smooth was her light brown hair, so stifl‘ and white was her collar, so lacking in spe- culation her mild gray eyes, so measured and monosyllabic her words 3 “ The factis," commenced the doctor, “ 1’11 never recommend that young woman Barrett as a nurse again I" “ No '2” said Hester, interrogatively. “ Of course not. You remember the young womon that had the trouble there at the hotel ’F" “Had the baby, you mean, don't you?" “ Of course»-â€"trouble enough,I should say. Well, she thinks she’s caught the small-pox off a. child on the carsâ€":and although I don’t. put any faith in it, her symptoms run that way. Well, the moment the widow beam of it, down she baby on. {kwd‘gggkmmut (3f the room; met me at: the door with her bonnet on ; declared she couldn’t stayâ€"was toc nervous. Pal] l” “ \Vhat will they ‘do 2" said Hester. “ God knows l" replied the doctor. “Idon’t know any one that will go there under rhe ciycumstances. I sup- pose Mrs. Ketchum and Mary Jane will see to the mother ; but the baby needs great; care. It'll die, of course.” Hester put down her tea-cup. “ Die l" she said ; “ 0h~no, surely l" “ Of course it will die I” said the doc- tor ; “ uine~tenths of all the babies die. What's to save this poor little weak- ling ‘3" Then he put ‘the last crust of his toast in his mouth, gulped down his ten and devoured his lemon jelly. This was his way of enjoying his dainties. \Vith the heel of his boot he kicked the higkory logs into 9. 12mm and took up his London Lancet. Then he put it down again with a sigh. A boisterous March wind howled down the chimney and rattled the window-shutters. “The fact; is,” said the doctor, get- ting up and putting on again his great- coat. and gloves, “I must go down to the hotel and see how they are getting “What now 1” éaid the doctor. “I’m perpetually waylaid at the door by bon- uetted women !” v “I don't suppose I shall be handy withâ€"a baby," said Hester, quietly; “ but if you'll take me to the hotel I'll do my best." ‘ Th6 doctor hesitated. " Suppose there should be danger of some infection Wile said. “I have no beauty to spoil,” she an- swered ; “and you'll take' care that I don’t die, won’t you 1" ' “Ay. that‘I will," he replied heart? ily; “ and as to beauty, ‘handsome is as handsome does,’ Hetty." This reminded her of his mother, and she declared he must have somebody to take care of him while Shfl was away. “ I’ll be hanged if she will." said the doctor. “ I‘ll have no sawdust of a woman about me.” But to pacify Hes- ter he consented to endure the woman for a while. - ' “ You must stop at the widow Balf- rett’s,“ she said, “She’ll keep house for you nicely.” ' They were met at the door of the hotel‘by the daughter of the landlady. She ssid she was veryglad to see the doctor, as her mother’d been took with the rheumahiz, and couldn't get out 0’ “rVVhy, who's with the sick lady, than?” said the doctor. ' Then they mounted the stairs to the sick room, and enterodrwithout cere- mony. ‘ I . "’:~â€" . £ H K 'r I“ Gracious heavens a voice from behind the four-pater, " have you brought us a 2mm», doctor?" “ Her husband," replied Mary J ape ,' “and he do takevou’most anul.” ' “She's a gosd deal better than a nurse," said the doctnr ; “ she’s a, friend in need:" Hester looked over at the young man compassionately. He was seated in a wooden chair wedged in between the bedstead and the wall, and the remains of the fallen dandyism about him were pitiable to see. His hair, that had lately been carefully parted in the mid- dle and brushed gracefully back from his forehead, now hung in disheveled looks. Two days’ beard rested on his chin, and his unwaxed mustache droop- ed mournfully. llis necktie fell in at loose knot, and his traveling suit, of that delicate French gray, so dear to an artistic eye, was sadly rumpled and soiled. One of his small white hands was tenaciously held by a smaller one from the bedâ€"«the weak, feverish hand of his wifeâ€"the other held a firm grip of a limp bundle that hung helplessly over his shoulder. Of which bundle he seemed in abject terror. When the bundle moved, the great drops ofperspi- ration stood on the young man's fore- head. and his knees trembled beneath the bedstead. But when a sort of gur- gle was heard from over his shoulder, he turned absolutely pale. “It’s choking again, doctor," cried the young patient. “ What the deuce can be the meaning of that sort of thing? it’s had nothing to choke on, not a drop yet of any kind. It's the most singular, the most terrifying thing." “Let me take the baby," said Hes‘ her, who had divested herself of her bonnet and cloak, and had already said a, few words of cheer to the poor little mother. Mr. Sherwood looked at her ad miringly. “ I'm immensely obliged," he said, handing over the baby and taking a long breath of relief. “ It's impossible for me to express my obligations. VVay- laid in his 1mgtife1'ous old rookery by these confounded difficulties, it's a. poni- tive charity to do anything for us. I never was in a. place before where money failed to procure the commOn ne- cessities of life." “\Ve shall get ‘along very nicely now," said Hester. “ It’s very kind of you to say so," said Mr. Sherwood “ Your face is tha first say of sunshine we've had yet. You must allow me to say that; I mver 54w 3. face I liked so well at first sight." “ Why, Fred I” cried his poor little wife, with a faint attempt. at a. smile. “ But it. is a. very nice face, and I don’t mind ifguu «lu pru' ' ’ be fond of my dear little baby, won't you “I” turning to Hester. “ Upon my soul,” said Mr. Sherwood, “I think I could trust myself with a. razor now, I’ve been afraid to have so tempting a weapon in my hand. I think I’ll try to get shaved. Of course it’s useless to speak of a, barber 'l" he added. The doctor shook his head. “ Of course not,” said Fred, resign- edly. ‘* I didn’t; even 1001: for such an evidence of civilization. But 1 haw shaved myself once before, and under these cheering circumstances, I’ll try it again." “Yes, dear, and of yOu too!" said Hester, warmly. It did seem as if Hester‘s presence in the house brought good fortune. The landlady grew better, and the doctor said that he thought. that Mrs. Sher- wood's fears were unfounded. "' ‘he‘ meantime Hester’s imaginative nature; exalted her new duty to a positive joy. A flood of tender and sweet delights surged through her very being when she felt this little live atom of flesh and blood nestling in her arms, pressing its soft little cheek to hers, looking into her eyes with its vague wondering innoâ€" cence.- She never tired of admiring it, of whispering to it a host of baby words that thronged into her brain. Ever When it slept she hung over it breath- lessly, wondering with what angels of paradise it was holding converse, and fancying the great dingy room filled ‘ with a mysterious radiance. A correspondent asks us to utter a blast against the fashion of ladies wearing long, trailing dresses in the streets. We might as well whistle jigs to a mile stone, with the expec- tation of its starting into a dance, as to hope to change a fashion, however absurd, by any force of argument or ridicule, when the utter‘ futility oi .both has been so often shown. Men have talked of the awful extravagance of fretting and fraying costly silks, by dragging them over sidewalks crossings and pavements; and the Wi'seland witty_Dr. Holmes his in- sisted that women who paraue the streets with elongated skirts, gather- ing dust, dirt-and slush. It is not a comely or cleanly sight to see a dress of, any fabric sweeping the streets, grimmed by the dirt, and col- looting in its progress various vegeo table debris. But it is the fashion. ‘A littlb' four-year old, in Richmond, very’ fond of a certain’dish, when“ by his mother '1th would (like to be $11 angel with w' s, and fly about h'éaven, like his little rther, repliad afterm pause: {‘No, ma; I’d a baa? ratth be a huwk, and live on chicks». '; . g , ' ., [To BE CONTINUED.] The Fashion. « ,h.‘ ’6 Nutmeg trees are planted in rows, at intervals of about twenty feet. The leat‘ is dark green and glossy, resembling that of the laurel, and the fruit, at a little distance, might be taken for a small russetrculurcd apple. When ripe the thick husk splits in the centre, showing a scar- let netwerk of maee enveloping an inner nut, black as ebony, the kernel of which is the nutmeg of commerce. The clove tree has some resemblance to the nutmeg, but the leaf in smaller and the foliage more leese and spread- ing. “As we drove through the or- chard the warm air of noon was hem vy with spice. The rich odor exhaled from the trees penetrated the frame with a sense of languid and voluptu- ous repose. Perfume became an up- petite, and the senses were drugged with an overpowering feeling of lux- ury. [Ind I continued to indulge in it, I should ere long have realized the Sybarite's eomplnint of his crum- pled rOseleaf." The world is full of kindness that never was spoken, and that is not much better-than no kindness at all. The fuel in the stove makes the room warm, but there are great piles of fallen trees lying among rocks and on the tops of the hills where nobody can get them; these do not make anybody warm. You might freeze to death for the want of wood in plain eight of all these fallen trees if you had no means of getting the wood home and making a fire with it. Just so in a family; love is what makes the parents and children and brothers and sisters happy; but if they take care never to say a word ebout itâ€"â€"â€"if they keep it a profound secret, as if‘ it were a crime, they will not be much happier than if there was no love among them ; the house willsecm cold even in the summer, and ifyou live there, you envy the dog when anyone calls him “poor fellow." The youthful members of' the Rue- uinn imperial family have toys which few other children in the world Wuuld dream of. On the ornamental waters of the garden attached to the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg floats a l OITUU mm“, the Warrior. It is a perfci-t steam- boat in every respect. Within the Palace is a miniature railroad, the operation of which is thus described by an English writer: “ The little ‘Express’ engine steamed away in grand style over the sixty feet of cir- cular rails laid down as a track at the rate of something like ten mills an hour, and the carriages attached were as perfect as could be, the interior of each being replete with cushions trimmed with crimson satin, the out‘ sides bearing the imperial arms; and, taken altogether, we may fairly say that a more charming model train could not possibly be constructed to amuse the young princes of Russia." The official who ordered this princely plaything, in doing so, said to the constructor: “ You will afford great pleasure to Her Imperial Majesty by sending, in addilion to the complete railway train, a locomotive in pieces. The ready-made steam railway train :Wlil serve for the amusement of the little princes, but it is also necessary to have, for instruction, another loco- motive sent here. This last must be prepared in separate pieces, so that those pieces can be put together and the whole of the machinery fitted here THE YORK HERALD PUBLISHED AT THE OFI'ICK Tuna-0m Dollar per Ann-ms in Am ’ The mineral resources pf Virginia and West Virginia. are now evidentlv in a fair way of development. There are seventeen cdal mines open or nearly ready for working in these: States, while seven iron mines are in operation or about to be. TWelve iron furnaces also hm’r'e beenrb‘uilt‘ ' ojacbed within the last hm m’éntha,‘ iv ich 'viill probably i{)1‘0dfl¢¢"120}000 tons'éf pigdron annu- ally and. consume 100,000 tons of coal. This rapidptogrega indigates that the will loug be great iron Muir); Shrug. and enjoy all the com '3?- ‘ '11 Cuba letter says the sugar crop this. year will fall short about. twenty- tive per cent. It attributes thetalliug 013' to a lack of rain, which it says is a. very exceptional circumst‘mces. If the real truth were sought for it would probably be found that the de- cline in the crop was caused largely bv the devast-aung affects of her civil in St. Petersburg by 'our young princes.” It is a satisfaction to know that. such expensive toys have in real. ity a practical use. From the opening of the New Hamp shire State prison, about. sixty years years ago, there has not been among the inmates one clergyman, lawyer, physician; printer or editor, nor dea- con, steward, church-warden, class lead- er, nér son of a clergyman. A Dutch Congressman remarked: “ Ven I van elected I thought I vould find dam all Solomons down here ; but I fou‘n’d dare ms some pick fools here as mineself." When is a young lady like a whale 7 When she's pouting. Inned “'eekly on Friday Morning Yoxaz Sun, Rlcnuougn HILL. A Nutmeg Plantation. Aux. Sm, Pnornxnon‘ Frozen Kindness. Imperial Toys. WHOLE NO. 814. V/KJI/Jan