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CHAMMY AND CHAMMIETTA.

through the summer sunshine, and has been as happy, apparently, as if nothing at all had happened. And yet she has eaten her children, and her husband is dead; but little she recks of it all, or thinks of the time when, her blue-bottles all gone and her summers all over, she will rejoin him where he now is, and Chammy and Chammietta will be once more and for ever together------in pickle.