A Correction!

Aunt Agatha dropped in for a chat. “Oh, Auntie, how ugly you are!” said her little niece.

“Eva!” cried her mother, horrified. “How can you say such a thing?”

“I just said it as a joke, mother!”

“It would have been a much better joke if you had said, ‘Oh Auntie, how pretty you are,’” chided her mother.

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