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Holding the tired-out little junior in her lap, Chiquita rocked and

fanned herself and napped - and woke - and rocked and fanned herself and

napped again

"Oh, don't bore

to Pete "I' to live there so

in perplexity his fiery, freckled face

"Yes, but I don't feel as if I were It's all so far away And I never

see it If I had anything to say about it, I ht feel differently But

I haven't So please don't inflict it onit for you woravely, "thatit for

your sake It is the expression of our love and admiration for you"

"Oh, slush!" exclai fro it to please yourself Besides, I don't

want to be an inspiration for anything"

"All right, then," Pete said in an aggrieved tone "But you are an

inspiration, just the same It is the chief vocation of women" He moved

over to the desk and took up a bunch of papers there

"Oh, are you going to write again this evening?" Clara asked in a burst