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 to arrive. How the said first floor fronts had gone forth to make enquiries and returned to say the lost ones were at the police station, and all was well. Then Josephine’s sister had to tell how she felt when the dire news was broken to her and how she feared it might be too late before her pa could reach the city and help her find little Josie and how awful it would be to tell him his little girl was lost (as pa was “doing time” this was pathetic imagining on the part of his daughter).

The young lady who served in the quick lunch parlour stated that she had telephoned her employer she just couldn’t go back that night because her nerves were that upset if she tried to carry “two hot fried hen’s fruits” she would have “made ’em an omelette before she got ’em to the table.”

The belle of Bradley’s, who sold gent’s gloves at that emporium, fanned herself Rh