The Arizona sentinel., 1889-09-14
FOOLISH QUESTIONS.
How Harry Was Cured of Very Annoy
ing Habit.

EOOEiOTl OOES iOiNOs
How Harry Was Cured of a Very Annoy
ing Habit.
Little Harry Meade's mamma was
very i'll, and his papa thought it best
to send Harry into the country for a
few weeks, and soon Harry and his pa
pa were on their way to Uncle Char
lies"
Harry was very tired when he
reached the farmhouse where his un-
Gle lived, and did not take much inter
est in the introductions which followed
his arrival, for he had never seen any
of his uncle's family.
He was duly presented to Uncle Char
lie, Aunt Emily, their three daugh-
ters, Kate, Carrie and Ella, and their
little son Ralph, who was only three
years old.
Harry's papa stayed until the next
afternoon, and when he started for
home Harry tried bravely to keep back
the tears which would come to his
eyes. His cousins, seeing how badly
he felt, tried to divert him in every
possible way, and succeeded so well
that he was as bright as any of them
before night.
As Harry had no sisters of his own,
he did not know what to make of his
girl-cousins, who were too old for
playmates, so the only way he could
enjoy their society was by tormenting
them with questions on every possible
subject.
No answer, however direct, would
satisfy him-he would invariably fol-
low it with another question.
But no one was irritated by Harry's
questions as Frank. AS Harry was a
guest, his cousins thought they must
humor him as much as possible, but
Frank would scold and fret about it.
Harry would go into the lot where
Frank was digging potatoes. and say:
"Have you got load yet, Frank?"
"No," Frank would say, not wish
ing to say any thing more than he
could help.
Have you half a loadP"
yes"
''Any more than half a lOad?"
Eyes.
How much more than half a load?"
Il don't know"
"Well, why don't you knOw?"
Because l don't want to know"
"Why don't you want to know?"
''You go into the house and torment
some one else," said Frank, now thor
oughly exasperated.
So Harry would go into the house,
where he would find his cousins very
busy but Harry would not stop for
that. If Kate were sewing Harry
would say:
Cousin Kate. what are you max
ing?"
Perhaps the answer would be: "a
dress for Ella"
why are you making a dress for
Cousin Ella?"
Because she needs one, L pre-
sume."
us it nearly done?"
mo, l only began it this morning"
''Why didn't you begin it before,
Cousin Kate?"
81 was not ready, l suppose. :"
why were you not ready?"
Because l wasn't" said Kate, fall
ng back on a womans reason.
lis it half done?"
"No."
els it quarter doneP"
yes"
els it any more than quarter doneP"
NO
why don't you make one for your.
elf ?''
''Oh, Harry! do stop asking ques-
IONS"
Harry would then go to other men,
,ers of the family with similar ques-
ions about different things, until each
n turn would implore him to stop;
hen he would begin his rounds again.
AS this continued day after day, the
iris began to think of some plan by
7hich he could be broken OR shamed
ut of this habit.
Finally the long-looked-for oppOr-
unity arrived. One morning Harry's
ncle Charlie told him that if he would
Ort some apples that afternoon he
7ou;0 take him to the county fair the
ext day, and give him any number of ]
ides on the merry-go-round, let him ,
1ol at the races and show him all ;
hat was worth seeing. Harry was de- ;
ghted with this plan, and was very J
ager to begin his afternoons work {
Now is our time, said Kate to the 5
ther children and Frank '1et us each I