A Christmas Talk

With Mothers.

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A Christmas Talk with Mothers.

“I do not approve of lady lecturers, as a general thing,” I remarked

meditatively, a while since, to a gentleman, in whose presence I am

somewhat prone to think aloud.

“You allude to _public_ lectures?” said he, interrogatively, with

unnecessary emphasis.

“Of course!”

“Oh!” and he resumed the study of a very dry-looking volume.