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Thia story is told of a mother’s reply to a sympathetic neighbor:
The fourth baby had arrived in the family before the oldest "had celebrated his fifth birthday.
“What in the world will you do with all those babies?” the neighbor bemoaned.
’’Well, one took all my time and all my money; four can do no more,” was the mother’s answer.
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“When sticky-footed walks the fly,” penned Ogden Nash of July weather. This year he meant August. The favorite chatter had been “We had no winter, we had mo ^Rrin*> and ryaw we’re leaving no summer.” That tune has changed.
The first man, woman, or cl\ild who asks “Is it hot enough for you,” should be allowed the privilege of standing over a melting pot of molten metal at the print shop, or consigned to ditch-digging for ten hours a day under the rays of Old Sol, or be designated to help with the canning over a good fire in the kitchen, or else he should join the threshing machine crew.
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