Library of Congress · resource:sn87065462/1909-01-06/ed-1:page:6
Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), January 6, 1909
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fJACiKTTES raoG NOT GOOD BAIT Why Bailey Failed to Catch the Baea Good Fmraitiire Our Sale 1VOS 1ET0HG 7n t He went to be f but not to sleep The fact that h little girl was at tending her first 6 Ml grownup priy ff made him wake OvrW 1 ful and tnou8nt ful for It was nam ior uiui lu reconcile himself to the Idea of bis baby Elsie turning Into a young wom an Twelve oclock He wished that she were asleep in the small crib beside his bed where he had rocked her night after night during the first six years of her happy little life But of course he could not make her a baby again Half past 12 If she could only have stayed a j schoolgirl a few years longer that would have been a comfort and she might have done It Just as well as not j It was really only a matter of the j length of her skirts They had been j suddenly lowered In the spring from her shoe tops to within an Inch or so of the floor and Elsie had gayly an nounced that she was grown up
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mississippi department of archives and history. 1909-01-06. Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), January 6, 1909. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87065462/1909-01-06/ed-1/?sp=6
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