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lie put l1is arm around her waist, The color left her check;
But on the shoulder of his coat, It showed up for a week.
And when the week was almost up, lie sat him down and wrote:
":My dear, the paint is wearing off, I need another coat."-Ex.
"I love you, I love you !" he murmured for the umpsteenth time. "Speak, answer me!"
The maiden coyly hling her head: "1-0h, Jolm, this is so sudden." lie drew her closer to him!! I
"Don't be afraid, darling," he said gently. "\Yonld you like me to ask your mother first?"
She threw her arms arouud his neck: "No, noI" she gasped. ":Mother is a widow and I wnnt you for myself."
lir. :hfattfield: "This sentence is symbolic of man." Douthat: "Butwhataboutwoman~~~
lfr. :Mattfield: "Well, man embraces woman."