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 hers in a package with a card, saying, 'For a one-legged man.'"

A shout of laughter from the children and dolls followed this funny story.

"Tell us some more, Mirandy," begged Janie. "You must know lots of interesting things."

"S'pose I do, if I could think of 'em. I remember her brother always had his nose in a book, and they called him a regular readin' snake."

"Ho," laughed Janie scornfully, "you mean a book-worm."

"Same thing," continued Mirandy. "He was always wonderin' how they killed the rebels, and he asked his father what he did when he caught one—if he sat on him and sawed him in two, or cut his head off.