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THE COMMON COLD
The "commpon cold" is probably the most expensive discose in the world. By patting practically everybody partially or completely out of action once or twies & year it
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The common cold is a low grade pressing with a warm iron. infection of the upper air passages, the back of the nose and the throat.
in a stuffiness and
Il furniture polish is applied to a grate when fires are over, it will
For instance, a very good fudge recipe is:-Take 2 lb. brown sugar, 4 or butter, pint water,4 level tablespoons Ovaltine. Boil sugar. and water together for five minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the butter, and boil for two or three minutes until it starts to thicken.
SUMMER MILKing of the nose, headache and nut require fleaning during the Then add the Ovaltine (stirring
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THE GOLDEN COBBLER.
CHAPTER VI.
At last the glittering palace was ready, and the Golden Coller and his family settled down to live in
・oneit
ly. Sometimes it was spelled very proud and expectant of his Eirik or Earie. It is derived from new vineyard. He mercilessly up the two..words, “Ei and “Rik." ("One Ever a, King"). From the pressed his many slaves, but o first syllable wo get our familiar day one of these employed in the First of all, however, they made "Ever, while the second corres vineyard prophesice in the King's up their minds that they would give a grand ball. Letters were sent out ponds to the Latin Rex, a King hearing that their master would to all the lords and ladies in the or ruler. It is used largely injį
never live to taste of its fruitsland, asking them to the ball; and Germany to-day as Erich.
When tho first vintage was pro to come. Then the Golden Cobbler they all said they would be glad parod, however, the slave-prophetanid to his wife We'll nak the At that moment in rushed was sent for. The King, raising his | King and Queen to come, my dear, servant with now that the King's wine filled cop said What to sad to bring with them their son vineyard was being devastated, by!
a wild boar, Laying aside his cup you think of your prophecy now untasted Ancaeus heatered outside. The la
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Nor did the Cobbler waste his And now Sulkianna, wes in a greit state. She spent a whole week time Dressed in a splendid suit of In making up her mind what to cloth of gold, ho took the King and "wear at the ball-for, of course, she Queen all over his palace, and show- wished to look the prettiest maiden them to nothing, he had bought The King and Queen near- First of all, she thought the ly lost their breath when they saw colour should be pink; and then his riches she changed her mind, and thought The Cobbler's new palace was eron she would have green, and then finer than their own. Although
there.
yellow, and then blue But at last, he had so lately been but a poor when the night of the ball came, she humble man, they trented him liko felt sure that all was well, and a prince. Even when the Goldon that she looked quite as grand and Cobbler was so clumsy as to tread pretty as a princess, upon their royal toca, they did not Sho had a gay dress of blue satin, mind, because, you see, the mark of behind quite the longest train in was a great success with a long train that swept yards, gold remained! And so the ball the room. Jewels hung around her
(To be Continued,). neck and arms in chains, and
arkled in her bair like stars
the gay young Prince] All her sulky looks bad gone,
Bo a letter was sent to the Royal lase; and to the great joy of the King and the Queen and the Prince Golden Cobbler and his family, the
sent word, that they, too, would be glad to come to the ball.
and she had such a smiling face that the gay young Prince Was her to dance with him onny times quite charmed with her. He asked
and more than once he kissed her under the mistletoel
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