P.C.--You musn't get ahead of the Little Story. (_Reads_.)

"When they had got down to the wicked little orphan who had not been

content with her lot some one brought a broom, and she was carefully

swept and smoothed out. Then they lifted her tenderly, and carried her

to the coroner. That functionary was standing in the door of his office,

and with a deprecatory wave of his hand, he said to the man who was

bearing her:

"'There, go away, my good fellow; there was a man here three times

yesterday trying to sell me just such a map.'"

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