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GOOD TASTE.
`I can't bear children,” said Miss Prim, disdainfully.
Mrs. Partington looked at her over her spectacles
mildly before she replied.
“Perhaps if you could you would like them better,”
she at last said; “but why is it that unmarried old maids
and single bachelors are always railing at children? It
seems as if they had never read the command given to
our forefathers to `increase and multiply and punish the
earth.' For my part, I love the little dears, and I had
rather hear a child cry any day than hear the Brass
Band.”
And she went right to work covering a ball for Ike.
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