The children especially enjoyed the fire-works. Linnea, who is nearly two, was frightened at first but tried to be brave and smiled. A bit later while she was sitting on my lap her mother looked at her and she had her hands over her eyes. She had been very quiet and I thought she was watching it. I think she was probably seeing some of it through her fingers; but she didn't like all the noise and flashes.
—o—THE BIG game hunter, exhibiting some trophies to friends, pointed with pride to a picture of a prone elephant.
"See that elephant? One night I shot him in my pajamas!"
"Mercy," cooed the sweet starry-eyed, dumb young thing. "How in the world could he get in them?"
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I THINK I mentioned a while back that it costs the average business man $2 to write a business letter. It doesn't seem possible that it could be that much until you break it down.
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