Necessary.
Mother Simpson had sent to Boston and bought a new "set of chinai" There it was, in its glory of white and gold, nobody knows how many pieces; enough apparently to set a table for "all the king's men."
"But don't it seem a sinful waste, sister?", asked her brother's wife, who was still using her "mulberrypattern." "You're gettin along in years, an you won't need nochiny long."
"I may not need it long, but I need it now, an I have needed it for forty years," returned Mother Simpson stoutly. "You don't know how I've been cramped, Lavinyl"
"Well, I don't jestly see how," said Laviny. "You've al'ays set your table an eat off on't, an that's all any on us do."
"Set my tablel Yes, but have I over give a tea parfcyf Now, Laviny Edwards, have If I've been invited out over'n over agin an now I can retaliate!"— Youth's Companion,
A writer in the Bostou Transcripts has figured up that heaven contains 1.800,000----000 souls, against a population In hjlj of
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)
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