She can knit the double diamond pattern and Em puts on such airs about it , but I think the single diamond is in better taste . The new winter hats at Markdale are very pretty . It is so exciting to pick a hat . Boys ca n't have that fun . Their hats are so much alike . CECILY KING . FUNNY PARAGRAPHS This is a true joke and really happened . There was an old local preacher in New Brunswick one time whose name was Samuel Clask . He used to preach and pray and visit the sick just like a regular minister . One day he was visiting a neighbour who was dying and he prayed the Lord to have mercy on him because he was very poor and had worked so hard all his life that he had n't much time to attend to religion . `` And if you do n't believe me , O Lord , '' Mr. Clask finished up with , `` just take a look at his hands . '' FELIX KING . GENERAL INFORMATION BUREAU DAN : -- Do porpoises grow on trees or vines ? Ans . Neither . They inhabit the deep sea . FELIX KING . -LRB- DAN , AGGRIEVED : -- `` Well , I 'd never heard of porpoises and it sounded like something that grew . But you need n't have gone and put it in the paper . '' FELIX : -- `` It is n't any worse than the things you put in about me that I never asked at all . ''
CECILY , SOOTHINGLY : -- `` Oh , well , boys , it 's all in fun , and I XXXXX Our Magazine is perfectly elegant . ''
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