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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 19, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 45.

THEY were sitting together in the streetcar. "I do hate people that are forever talking about their neighbors," said the woman with the peaked hat. "So do I," coincided her companion in the cashmere shawl. "There's Mis' Green," continued Peaked Hat, "continually a carryin' things back and forth. Think she'd better look to home. Goodness knows she and her husband live a regular cat-and-dog life." "Yes, indeed," said Cashmere, "and her daughter Sarah isn't half cared for. I was tellin' Mis' Jones only yesterday that the way Mis' Green neglected that girl was a cryin' shame. O, by the way, did you hear that story about Tilda Smith?" "No. What is it?" exclaimed Peaked Hat, turning half around in her seat in her eagerness, her eyes sparkling in anticipation of the coming treat. But, gentle reader, never mind what it was. Neither you nor I care anything about it. We hate tattling as bad as Peaked Hat and Cashmere did.—Selected.