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THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE
VOLUME V.
• EXAMINE 1IOW YOUR HUMOR IS INCLINED, AND fVrflCfl THE RULING P 88 ION OF YOUR MIND.”
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CANTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19,1884.
NUMBER 85.
the Cherokee advance.
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o:
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P. 0. Drawer 49.
Professional and Business
Cards.
W. A & G. I. TEASLEY,
Attom6ys n,r, Law,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will give prompt attention to all busi
ness intrusted to them. Will practice in
all tho courts of the county and in the
Superior Courts of the Blue ltidgo cir
cuit. jiin3-ly
V C. D. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA
Refers by permission to Jolm Silvey At
Co., Thos. M, Clnrko & Co., James It.
Wylie and Gramliug, Spalding & Co., all
I)ItA 11’iV Jit.A Mu
Hip pmidonatc grief bmii’.r Bin dying bod;
’Jdu< pnssii'imto longing for tlio vnuislici
bKsfi;
1 hr pmudonatc yearning for the glory fled;
Of each we nnk, “Gan life bear wnrso that
Mils /"
\yn- answer weary lips and timl eyes,
To vio’ent sonovvs solsce Nature grants;
Worse (ban tbe world's snpremost sgonica
Are sit its empty blanks—its hopeless wants
When .avid lightnings flame and thunderi
crash,
When tlie tierce winds lash the flcrco sea t(
storm,
Wr sis’ the beacons hjr the lurid flash,
The tossing spray-olonds glittering rainlmwi
form;
But when below llio sullen drip of rain
't he waters soli along tho hollow shorn,
Ti» hard to think the son can shine again,
Hie dull waves gleam to living light oiici
more.
When time saps slowly strength and liopi
away,
And the black gulf yawns by tho lonely path
When tho dumb night creeps on tho cinpt)
day,
And tho one clew of all is hold by death,
Look not to fniled joy or lingering love
To wake tho powers youth and faith hai
given; •
Take patiently the lot we all must prove,
Till tho grent .l'»r swings back and shows ut
—heaven.
X Doctor’s Doy.
BY EDMUND I,TONS.
Yearn flew over both of our bends be
fore I called him by any other name
than the Doctor’s Boy. Tho village
knew that ho was a foundling, because
ho had been left at tho door of old Dr.
Hurt’s liouso one cold Cbristmns-eve,
but it was divided in opinion ns to
whether ho was a bad boy or a goal one.
Borne thought lie was tlio latter, some
the former. I was perfectly satisfied
that ho was a Wretchedly iniquitous
youth, and I told him so. Ho burst into
tears, and said I would change my
opinion of him somo day,
Bat at first be certainly gave mo no
reason to do so. Ho compounded for
mo a dose onoe tc; cure a headache (fftr
Dr. Ilart was not abovo keeping drugs
and making up his owu prescriptions)
that brought mo to death’s door, nud
tho old doctor was pnt to his wits’ end
to cure me. But tho Boy went to my
motlior and told her that it was his fixed
intention to taoonio a great doctor and
chemist, and I had givon him liis first
opportunity to tost his knowledge of
medicine. Ho had given mo the wrong
drug, ho acknowledged; but it was all
,,, . , i in tho interest of science, and ho
^SiS^SttSSt^Si >■—— *
of Atlauta, Ga.
janl-’83-ly
' CEO. R. BROW,
ATTRONEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the Superior Courts
and Justice courts of Cherokee.
Office over Jos. M. McAfee’s storo
Special attention given to tho collec
tion of claims.
Business respectfully solicited.
[jan3-’83 ly.]
n. w. NKWMAN.
JNi). 1). ATTAWAY.
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CANTON, - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in tho Superior Courts
„f Cherokee and adjoining counties.
Prompt attention given to all business
placed in their hands. Office in the
Court House. [jan3-’83-ly ]
P.P. DuPREE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will practice in tin Blue Ridge cir
Ciut and in Cherokee county. Offlc' 1 in
tii, Court House with the Oriinary.
Administrations on estates.
gigyCo lections a specialty,
BJE1N. F. ): BRU.Y,
AGENT —
FIRE AND LTTE INSURANCE CO.
Office-will, Cheuokee Advance
J. M. HARDIN.
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
ORNAMENTAL PAINTER,
MhM A\ii OTIC ARTIST ALSO.
Oii-ntal md Grecian painting. M«zo
Tin in , Car'),>-Tln in/, painting in 8o-
pci and India Ink.
Twenty-live per ceutsivid by appiy-
'iig L, ui .‘ before contracting with other*.
Material furnished at bottom piioes.
B 4 is faction given or no oharg-w made.
Sir i r address, J. M. HARDIN,
(j m.V83-ly] Canton, Georgia.
my molhor forgave him, and persuaded
Dr. Hart to rotain him in his servico.
It certainly was not on account of tlio
Boy’s goal looks that liis first misad
venture resulted harmlessly to him. Ho
was an angular Boy. He was a red-
haired Boy. Ho was a freckled Boy.
But lie was a frank Boy (at least my
mother said so), and lor two years more
lie was allowed to go nhout tlio villago
dislributiug tbe doctor’s nostrums, and
making himself, ns I thought, very ob
jectionable.
Dr. Hart had no particular liking for
tbe Boy. He said tho Boy was a Christ
mas gift, and, liko all such presents,
called for something in return. Thus
lie bad boeu obliged to board and clothe
the lud for seventeen years, and ho al
ways protested that ho was not worth
tho outlay. Still, those who knew the
doctor best were well assured of the fact
that if the Boy had not earned his board,
clothing, nnd lodging he would not have
received them. Ho was called, in later
years, Ebcuezor Dorkiug, though what
right lie bud to that name nobody in tho
villago knew.
At last the Doctor’s Boy disappeared,
fie stole quietly away iu the night-time,
leaving not a line of writing behind him
to say where he hnd gone; so Mrs. Hart
suggested that he hod robbed the till in
the drug-store. A senroh was at once
made, and tlio fact was developed that
not only had no money been taken from
tbe drawer, but that a new crisp flve-
dollur bill bad been added to its con
tents ! There seemed to be no doubt
that tho Doctor’s Boy had placed it
there, and tbe matter was a nine days'
wonder for the villago. Then tho doctor
hired another boy, who interested no
body, and he was soon discharged.
I suppose it was due to the subject-
matter of conversation furnished by the
Boy’s departure that I found mysell
more frequently than before in the doc
tor’s sitting-room. Agnes Hart was a
beautiful girl, about sixteen years oi
ago, and she laughed eo merrily at my
1 tales of the eccentricities of the Boy that 1
I am afraid I exaggerated them a little; but
l>y degrees the recollectiou of vhedugi
taforo going to the front; but I was
thinking tory tenderly of Agues horeelf,
and I believe she Was thinking in mneli
i lie saiuo strain of me. A hundred time*
during the past two yean I had boon oh
tlio verge of asking her the momentous
question, but hnd decided to wnit until
my position in the world was lletter as
sured. And now that the country in her
extremity wna calling for the best ser
vices of her sons, would it havo been
fair to ask n simple girl to bind herself,
even by an engagement, to one who
might nover return to claim her pledge.?
I thought not; hut os I watched her faro
when wo were parting, and imagined l
saw what I longed for written there, I
determined to ask her to be my wife
when the war was over.
Ob, tlio wretched years of strife that
followed 1 I thought they would never
end. But at Inst tbe closing scenes hud
come, and tlio goal fortune that had
followed mo through a score of engage
ments, bearing me unharmed while
others went down by thousands, forsook
me in a measure at last. I was hit hy a
spent hall on the knoo, and a moment
afterward riddeu over hy the charging
cavalry.
Your case is not a very serious one,”
said the doctor, as ho beut ovor mo
while I lay that night on a blanket on
the field, where tho hospital tent* had
not yet been erected. “There arc others
here more in need of my servioe*—this
hoy besido you, for instance; I must at
tend to kirn, no seems to be badly
hurt Let mo examiuo you, my lad.”
“Ob, there is not muoh the matter
with mo, sir," said tho lod. “I was hit
in tbe side at the last fire; but it is only
a trilling wound. You see, I was a doc
tor’s boy before I joined the army, and
I know something abont such things.”
“Indeed 1” said tlio doctor, smiling.
“Well, wo ought to bo good friends. J
Was a doctor’s boy myself before I be
came a doctor. Bat let me look at your
wound. Phew I this is no trifle. The
sooner wo get you under cover tho bet
tor. You are in for a siege of a conplo
of months of it at least, my lad.”
The boy was very much dkhcefrtened
at this intelligence; and the nexf morn
ing, when wo wero all under canvas, the
doctor, having finished his immediate
duties, sot by his bedside, aud I heard
him tell liis prftiont how when he was a
doctor’s boy ho had not learned much of
medicine; and how in making;an experi
ment ho had nearly dosed to death a
boy a little older than himself. When
he was illxiiit to Icavo tho tent I Bftid :
“Doctor, I am tlio boy whom you near
ly dosed to death. What have you boon
doing through nil these years ?”
I had recognized him on the preceding
night, but ho had not known ine, nnd ho
was astounded when I accosted him. Ho
iiad certainly improved both in appear
aiico and nmunci's, nisi I found aftor
win'd that lie was a great favorite witli
the command to which lie was attached.
We soon became very good friends—far
better, indeed, than wo had ever been in
tlio ol 1 days when I so candidly ex
pressed mv opinion of him. His success
was duo simply to common-sense nnd in
dustry. On leaving Dr. Hart’s service
ho had hired himself to another doctor,
who gave him fairer play than his
former principal, and he won enabled to
study medicine, attend tho necessary
lectures, and finally to obtain bis di
ploma.
At last I asked him why he had left
the fivo-dollar bill in the drawer when
he was leaving. Ho laughed.
“It was the only money,” ho said,
“that Dr. Hart ever gavo me. Ho
handed it to mo, grudgingly enough,
abont a year before I loft, and I never
changed it. You will think it, perhaps,
a strange sentiment for a doctor’s boy:
but when I was running away without
giving him any notice, I thought I had
forfoited all claim to compensation fox
my services; so I returned bis money.
By-tlie-way, bow is the old doctor now ?'
I hud heard of Dr. Hart sinoe I loft
tho village, and I was able to give Dr.
Dorking (for so he was called) a good
deal of information about him, and,
with the rest, I told him that he was
anxious to sell his practice.
“Oh, indeed,” said Dorking, quietly.
“Then I think I will go and buy it.”
And then, in answer to -ray look of sur
prise, he added: “I haVe saved some
money, and I don’t see how I can em
ploy it better than in settling down iu
the old village.”
As the weeks went past, my wound
did not improve, and Dorking was often
with me. The final scenes of tho war
closed without our presence. In the
conversations wo had I suppose I told
him enough to give him some inkling of
my old affection for Agnes Iiart, for I
iii'l at times from sido to aide, mutter
ing in a low fever, I saw always that
swpoet young faco boforo hie, and in tlio
d’ ys of my convalescence I resolved, as
soon as t could travel, to start for the
old village and »sk her to be my wife.
.'■Yt last Dr. Dorking left me, going
back, ho said, to try to secure Dr. llnrt’s
pi notice, and I passed three very dreary
weeks alone. All sorts of misgivings
tn-Milled me. Oil, wliy hml I not east
sentiment to the winds, and asked Ag
ue* for tho promise of her haud before I
joined the army ?
It did not take mo long to reach tho
village after I had once started, nnd my
heart was bentJug very fast ns I stood
Implore the old doctor’s house. The
honeysuckles still twiued around tlio
postu at each side of tliu door, nnd the
four years that Imd passed since 1 was
there last did not seem to havo made
much change iu the quiet old home-
stt ad. Tho plate on tho door Waring
the words of “Doctor Hart,” was per
haps a little rustier tliau formerly, hut
that was ail
Tho servant who admitted me ushered
me into tlio front parlor with n “Hem !
Captain Douglas I” and I saw Dint there
were two persons iu the room. Now I
SOI not particularly quick of appiehen-
sion, but I know precisely tlio situation
betwoon those two the moment I entered.
A^nes rose, whilo her companion, who
was Bested very eloso to her, remained
in uis chair, nud tho blushes that flow to
tho fair face of my old sweetheart were
clearly not for me.
“You see, Douglas,” said Dorking,
half an hour later, “Agnes hod promised
to lie my wifo long beforo I left tho doc
tor's house, I could never havo offered
lifer a homo had I remained hero, nnd
that v as the reason I ran away. She
has known all my movements, for wo
have corresponded regularly ever sinoe.”
Bo it was just ns well tunt I had not
proposed for Agues beforo tlio fighting
lagan. Even then the Doctor’s Boy
had won tho doctor’s daughter.— Jfar-
vcr'n llcuar
Thinning In the Hard*--
' (ilu&iovifeo'in £aidb.im* mutters rntW,
gi/es his plants, especially his roots,
simicient room. He oaunot sco why he
should sow twenty or more seeds for
every plant that comes to perfection. If
wo wero to dibble in a single carrot seed
every six incites in a row, it is probable
that very few of them ■ would appear as
plauts. A largo number of seeds aro
sown in order that, by their united ef
fort, in germination, they may hroak
through tho soil and allow enough plants
to oee the light to mako a stand. After
the plants are up then comes the thinniiif;,
Slid wo cut out with tho hoe a largo
number of beets, parsnips, olo., and
filially loavo one in a place at inter'alsof
sis inches to a foot, according to Dm va
riety. Onions seem to do well it lott iu
liltlo flusters to crowd one another, and
John Harris says that this is tho best
treatment for short kinds of carrots. But
these aro exceptions, and as a rule the
more room roots have llic quicker tlioy
grow and the more tender they will bo.
Take spinach, for example, though not
a root, it needs judicious thinning. Thfc
first thinning may loavo tho plants two
or three inches apart in the row; a second
time, the plauts may lie left six inches
apart, then every other plant may ho
taken for iise, and tho final cutting of
well developed plants will bo the host of
ail. Sa'sify, at best a small root, may ho
Imd much larger than we usually see it,
iiad more convenient for tlie cook, by
giving it room. As a rule, our garden
crops are too much orowdod fojj the bo4
Agriculturist for May.
Tav of Officers.
NO MORE FRONTIER.
Hill an tho Wny Ihr Wnl la l.oalna
lla Nirnna* Ways.
The system of building railroads into
the wilderness and thou allowing the
wilderness to develop afterward, has
knocked the essential joy ont of tlie life
of Die pioneer. At cue time the hardy
hewer of wish! and drawer of water gavo
his life willingly thnt his sou might ride
iu the “varnished cars.” Now the Full-
man palace oar takes the Now Yorker to
tho threshold of the sea or to the bound
ary line lietweou tho United States and
tho British possessions.
It has driven out the long-handlod
/ryiug-pnu nud the flapjack of twenty
years ago, mid introduced the condensed
milk and canned fruit of commerce.
Along tlio highways, whoro onoo the
hopeful hundreds marched with long-
handled shovel and pick and pan, cook
ing hy Dio way thin suit jmrk and flap-
jackH and slnmgnllion, now tho road is
lined with empty beer bottles and poach
cairn that have outlived their usefulness.
No landscape can bo picturesque with
an empty peach can in tho foreground,
any more than a lion would look grand
in a rod monogram horso blanket and
Tiilso tooth.
Tim modern camp is not tho camp ol
tho wilderness. It wears the half-civil
ized and shabby genteel garments of a
sawed-off town. You know thnt if yon
ride a day you will ho whoro yon can got
tho daily pnyors and read thorn under
the electric light. That robs tho old
onuyons of their solemu isolation and
peoples onoh guloh with tho odor ol
codfish halls and civilization. Civiliza
tion is not to blame for all this, and yet
it seems sad.
Civilization oonld not have dono this
all alone. It had to call to its aid-the in
fernal fruit oau that now dosolatos the
most oliscuro trail in tlie heart of tlio
mountains. Yon walk over tlio chaos
whore the “hydranlio” has plowed up
the vnlloy like a convulsion, or you treat!
tbo yielding path across the deserted
dump, and on all sides tho rusty, neg
lected and humifiatod empty tin can
steiae-at you witlj its monotonous, dude-
iike stare. ’ ,
An old-timer ouco said to me: “I ve
ibont decided, Bill, that the West is a
matter of history. When wo cooked our
grub over a sage-brush fire wo could got
fat and fight Indians, but now wo fill
our digesters with the cold pizen and
pewter of the canned peach; we go to a
big tavern and stick a towel under our
chins and oat pie with a fork and heat
np our oarkisses with antichrist coal, and
wliat do we amount to ? Nil thin I I
used to clmsA Indians all day and eat raw
salt pork at night, liekuz I dnssent build
a fire, and still I felt tatter than I do
now with a wad of tin-can Hoddor in my
stummiek and a homesick feeling in my
weather-beaten breast.
“No, wo don’t havo the fun wo used
to. We havo more swarroesand sciatica
and one bloomin’ tiling and another of
that kind, hnt wo don’t get one snort of
pure air nnd iqqictito in a year. They’re
hriugiu’ in their blamed telephones now
and malaria and aiguo and old sledge,
aud fun might as well skip out. Thore
ain’t no frontier any more. All we’ve
got left is tho old-fashioned trantler joos
and rhnmatizof ’49.”
Bvhind tlio rod squaw's cayuse plug
Tlio liand-wir riiarn and raves,
And pie-plant pies are now produced
A Ik; vo tho Indian gravos.
I hour tho oatliH of pioncor,
The caucus yet to be,
The first low hum whoro soon will come i
The fuzzy bumblo bee. — •
Miiit, Nyb.
A Temperance Song.
' Tune: low*
QUAKER CITY HUMOR
A FRWTIIINIIS An H>K*TAM.YOT*lt-
III: Alt I* HY TIIH PIIII.AUKI.rilM
“KVKMNti CAI.I..'*
AT TUB SUPPER TABLE.
“What, another oup of tea, Mr. Dnm-
ley ?” exclaimed Die landlady, aa bn
passed liis cup for tlio third time. “I
am delighted to soo that you are enjoy-
ing your supper.”
“Yui,” responded Dnmloy. “I waft
quite hungry to-uight, and the tea taatm
unusually good.”
“Not very complimentary to me,”
went on' the landlady, - with a aort of
second-class genteel -littlo laugh. “I
generally make the tea myself, hut to
night I was busy about something else,
and the cook ifiode it. I wonder what
she could have put tn ft/’*
“Well,” responded Dumloy, as he
stirred it gently with his spoon, “I
should judgo from tlid ‘taste that she
must havo put somo ten in it.”
A rt.BARANT DAY IN TUB WEST.
“My dear,” said a Western farmer to
his wife na fio got’ont of Led, “will yon
look nnd see wliat kind of'a day It is?”
“Well,” she, replied, gkifing out of tho
window, “Mr. Binith’a barn ncross the
way is being blown into the uoxt lot,
but-’’ .'
“Not his new brick Barn?’'
“No, the old wooden one, and it looka
oh it the roof of his house will have to
go, but I don’t believe thore will bo very
much of n storm.”
“Probably not,” replied the husband,
“hut sim wo can hardly expect settled
weather at this season of tho year. I
guess I hnd taster drive’tb town to-day
iustond of waiting until Saturday. It
might storm, then.”
SUMMER nOARDIBfl. BATES.
Stranger—“Wlmt do you charge for
those room? for the season ?”
Landlady—‘ ‘LeJ, mo see. You said
something-abont. being .-at Newport all
last summer. did yon jjot ?
“Yes.” •
{, “My terms krs f 10 a day.” I
) . “My gracious 1, I oant afford to taj
(hat.” ' ' ' ' . *
“It is ehoapec ttym going to New
port,"
“But I meant Newport, Pa. I waa at a
farm-house near thdre, and paid fill a
week.”
“Oh 1 excuse me. , In that ossa my
terms will be f6»&0 .a- week.’
Senator Hawley reported favorably to
tlio U. S. Senate, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, tlie bill introduced
by him to provide that section of the
set approved March 8, 18G5, making ap
propriations for the support of the
Amy, which provided that all officers
jfe volunteers then in commission below
die rank of Brigadier-General, who
ibouid continue in tho military service
iq the close of the war, should ho on-
titled to receive, upon being mustered
out, three months’ pay proper, he so
cans trued so as to entitle the heirs or
'legal representatives of such officers wlxo
•*ero killod or died in the service be-
tween March 3, 1866, and April 10, of
receive the three
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conquered 1h tho foe. And when our Kloriou*
thfiit in done There’ll be Icbh want and woe.
—Chicago Sun,
The Nihilists In Russia.
rwo BOASTS.
Iowa Man —“Yes, sir; our prond
boast is that Iowa has a cow on every _
hill-top, and plenty of milk in the val- j ( j ve SC emed to pass out of our lives, and ' noticed that as I spoke of her he grew
leya.” , . i when, four years later, a torrent of wax j very thoughtful, und looked furtively at
Pennsylvania Man—“That’s nothing. ^ BWe pt over the country, I was not think- me,
Pennsylvania has a pump at every cross-; j n g 0 f the Doctor’s Boy when I took
toads, and plenty of milk in the ciUes.” j Agnes Hart’s hand to say good-by
AAAV-, AJS-J ew.-w, A »
deep,but it was my first love, and did not
easily die. As I lay on my couch, toss*
sam-. year, to
worths pay to which
would have been entitled had they lived
and been mustered out at the oioao of
the war,'
Bad Weather.—Its effect on the
merchants: “No use spending money
cu advertising. People won’t go out
unless obliged to.” Its effect on the
public: “Thore are no bargains or nov-
1 We
The Oarmania says there is much
confusion and consternation among the
Russian police owing to the discovery
made sinoe the murder of Golonel Sudei
Lin that besides the ordinary police
cipher Golonel Sudeikin used various
ciphers for the different sections of the
organization of secret agents in Russia
and throughout Europe. These keys
have been stolen or lost and it is impos
sible for the government to know or ver
ify the identity of tho agents. It is
My love, perhaps, was not veiy cities advertiaed in the papers, ^ ^ _
have seen all tho old stocks. No use i f care( j that tlie nihilists hold the key to
going out,”—Philo. Call. ! a cipher.
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a rrnoriu ATE. PBOFOTOTATItW.
Jones—“ThBl was a terrlable dy-na*
mite oxploaton,‘w*n’t it?”
Hniith—“was anybody killed ?”
“No, hut the revortaratioo was fell
for milos.”
“In that oaso you .should not call it
a dy-namite explosion. Nobody died
you know." ' 4 ■'
“What sllojildl 6all it?”
“A dyn-umjto eiplosion —made a big
din, you know.”
am' Exnusii
Editor—“No, your Honor, I am not
sick, but I should liko to be excused
from jtlry duty all tta same.”
Judge—“F6r what reason?”
“I have ft very important article to
write fuc thp next issue of the paper.”
- “Very important, is it? May I ask
wlmt is tbo subject ?’■’ •
“The jury system/’
“Ah I And what ground do you
take?”
'-“That all. the. evils, .of the system
would be remeved if .reputable oitisens
would consent-to serve.”.
• .1 • A /MD FBOBPBOT.
“I see by the pepen that the Ameri
can Association of Umpires have decid
ed to find pif ohers ten dollars for bitting
the batsnilan w5th thte ball.”
“Oil, I guess that can’t be true.”
“But I know it is. ■ • Yon can rely on
it.” .
It is -really too bod. Seems to me
tho country is.going tij-tlie dogs.”
“How so?”
“Tho only nqjiqpnl game we have is
.baseball, nnd now that is to be deprived
its chief attraction.’’ ,
'TOO HIGH -RENT.
“What did'you say tho rent of that
double dwelling Is asked a house-
hunter of b West Philedelpola landlord.
“Eighty dollars a month for each side,
the tenant to pey water rent and do all
the repairing;”< •* •
“H’m; do you let .bath sides together
for any less ?’’ ,
“No, it pays me better to let each
side alone.”
“Well, I guess it will pey me better,
too,” and he walked away.
A busy domestic scene? Girl in the
parlor putting down carpets, mother iu
tho kitchen putting clown peaches, aud
little boy iu the pantry patting Jowp
jam;
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