A LONG-PANTER.
Mary, aged fourteen, was found one 'day by' ail: older sister sobbing and crying. "What is the matter ?" she asked, with great concern-.'. 1 . • "Three boys' l have asked mo. to go to the dance to-night," was the. unexpected reply. -"Well,.'my dear child,.certainly that is not such a terrible'riiisfortune." -
"Yes, but; I; told the" first one I would go with him, and-the was a longpanter!"—"Harper's. Maga/.ine."
Three or four decades ago the banana was.almost.unknown in.the. United States, while to-day the country is importing nearly 30,000,000 bunches of the fruit annually. . Of these New Orleans gets nearly one-half, making, it the greatest banana port of tho world; Boston, Mobile, and New York come next, in the order named. England' al.vi has lately become a great consumer of bananas.,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 9
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129A LONG-PANTER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 9
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