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Rh example, live for half a century In blameless ignorance that there is such a disease as Cerebro-spinal Sclerosis, discover the fact one day, and in the ensuing week you will meet seven different people who have got it. For the first time in your life you encounter the name Pffunfenphluger, and then you encounter it twice more in the next three days. A man informs you at dinner that when he was young, the boys of the village used to play a game called "knurr and spell". You remark that it is a queer and quaint name. Next morning your paper has an article on "Defunct games," and instances that of "knurr and spell ".

The Vice stood before the judgment seat and thoughtfully stroked his own. He was "for it" again for making the hens play "Settlers and Indians". In the capacity of Indian he had settled one of the Settlers for good. That particular bird would never settle again in this world.

"I shall have to thrash you every Wednesday and Saturday night on principle. Sir—on principle, do you understand," Daddy had finally