ls' is dated 1912 it might be him."

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[Illustration: _Chauffeur of Large Car_ (_who has been admonished for
taking up too much of the narrow road_). "Garn! If there ain't enough
room for yer, put that thing on yer foot and roller-skate with it on the
pavement."]

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A CHILD AMONG THE PROPHETS.

_The Evening News_ called attention to the following as one of the
"special features" of a recent issue:--

"FORECASTS OF SPRING MILLINERY

By Miss Bessie Ascough (Age 7)."

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MIRANDA'S WILL.

I am not legal adviser to Miranda's family; nevertheless she came to see
me on business the other day. I saw at once by her serious air that it
was something of first-rate importance.

"I want a will," she said; "one of those things that people leave when
they die."

"Some people leave them and some don't," I said.

"I mean the things that show who is to have your belongings."

"Undoubtedly you mean wills."

"Do you sell them?"

"Sometimes."

"I should like to see some."

"What size?" I asked facetiously.

"Sixes--long ones," said Miranda, looking at her hands.

"I remember," I murmured.

Miranda looked up with a start and assumed her severest expression.

"I'm afraid you're not treating the matter seriously. Perhaps I had
better go to father's solicitor; he's older and quite serious. But then
he's rather bald and uninteresting. I think he takes snuff."

I retorted in my most professional manner. "I beg your pardon; I think
you must have misunderstood me. I meant that all wills are not quite the
same; some are longer than others."

"Not too long, then," she said. "You might show me some medium size
ones. I should like to do the thing fairly well."

"We don't exactly stock them; they're generally made to order."

"I'm sorry; I wanted one at once. You know I was twenty-one the other
day." (I knew it to my cost.) "Father says that everyone over twenty-one
ought to make a will."

"Your father's views on the subject are very sound. If you'll give me
your instructions, I'll make you one." I spread a sheet of paper in
front of me.

"But surely you can make a will without my help?"

"Not very easily. It's something like being measured for a gown. I must
know what you have to leave and to whom you wish to leave it."

"But I don't want anybody to know."

"I'm not anybody."

"I know