OUT OF SIGHT.
' Tee, I have a pretty big month/ admitted tbe candid majo, 'but I have learned to keep it shut, and that counts for Bomething whea you tat* year levels. I received a lesson when I was a small boy that I have' never forgotten. I was born and brought np on a farm, and I had the country boy habit of going abroad with my mouth wide *>p?n, especially if there was anything unusual going on. Q^^dajiuan uncle whom I had not seen for yeTarß paid me a visit. • Hullo, uncle 1' said I, looking up at him with my mouth opened like a barn door. ~' Ho 1 loked at me fox a moment without answering, and tfcen said : " C 1039 your mouth, aovhf, 00 I can see who you are/ • I took.the lesson to my heart and resolved that from that day I would not allow my month to conceal my identity/ Porcelain coins were for a long time ourtent in Siam.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 16 December 1902, Page 2
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166OUT OF SIGHT. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 16 December 1902, Page 2
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