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Mrs Atwater sighed "You mustn't use such expressions, Florence"

"I don't see why not," the daughter promptly objected "They're a lot more refined than the expressions they used on lad you didn't play with theave way to filial despair "Ma! I've said anyhow fifty ti up a real newspaper, and have people buy it and everything They been all over this part of town and got every aunt and uncle they have besides their own fathers and hbourhood, and Kitty Silver and two or three other coloured people besides They're going to charge twenty-five cents a year, collect-in-advance because they want the ht; he told me so"

"How often do they intend to publish their paper, Florence?" Mrs Atwater inquired absently, having resuoin' to have the first one a week from to-day"

"What do they call it?"

"The North End Daily Oriole It's the silliest name I ever heard for a newspaper; and I told 'euess!"

"Was that the reason?" Mrs Atwater asked

"Was it what reason, mamma?"

"Was it the reason they wouldn't let you be a reporter with them?"

"Poot!" Florence exclai to do with their ole paper But anyway I didn't make fun o' their callin' it 'The North End Daily Oriole' till after they said I couldn't be in it Then I did, you bet!"

"Florence, don't say----"

"Maot to say somep'n! Well, I told 'eed ed me a thousand years I wouldn't be in any paper with such a crazy name and I wouldn't tell 'em any news if I knew the President of the United States had the scarlet fever! I just politely infor I declined so ot on 'em!"

"But ouldn't they let you be on the paper?" her mother insisted

Upon this Florence became analytical "Just so's they could act so iht to be arrested!"