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32430	Anonymous	The Practical Joke; Or, The Christmas Story of Uncle Ned			.txt	text/plain	1473	84	83	OR THE CHRISTMAS STORY OF UNCLE NED. [Illustration: Kind little Girls relieving the Poor.] One Christmas night we were all gathered around a cheerful fire in the story, if Uncle Ned would tell one. UNCLE NED'S STORY. UNCLE NED'S STORY. "Many years ago, when I was a slip of a lad like Tom there"--"Why, Were you ever as little as Tom, uncle?"--"Hush, Willy," said "Well, Willy," said Uncle Ned, "I don't suppose I look much now as if I stories, when I proposed to Jack Thornton, and his little brother, that little pond, which was supplied with the purest spring water, looked [Illustration: Ned rescuing Jack from drowning.] "I remembered having seen the day before an air-hole near a rock on the 'Come, Jack,' said I, 'follow me, and I will take you where air-hole myself, and just give one of Jack's legs a ducking, without However, by good nursing, Jack soon got well; and we	./cache/32430.txt	./txt/32430.txt