The Princeton union., 1891-03-19
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AND as She threaded her needle she
exclaimed at the beauty of his little
coat, and it's fitting SO remarkably
well. But when she tried to mend the
rlp she found, to her amazement that
M sne could not make her stitches hold
lhey broke away as fast as she took
them. '''o 'ooA
~ think" said Hebron, uneasilv.
~ had better go and finish that whis-
tie for little Tommy"
SO he went to work again on the wh;s-
tie, and pretty soon it was done. and
gave forth clear, sweet sound Thai
dellghted the baby immensely. Then
Hebron ran back to his aunt.
s"P!ease sew up the place now,
auntie," he said.
And sure enough she sewed it I'M
without the least difficulty at ali.
She would have wondered at the affair
very much if her mind had not been
preoccupied by a recipe for O. new kind
OF salad that the cook was making for
supper.
The very next morning Hebron ran
off to school with his arithmetic lesson
unlearned, and he did not mean to
learn it either; he meant to copv off
the sums from some other boys slate,
and slip along through the recitation
in that way.
"Hullo, jeff" he called out to the
first boy he met in the school yard.
"lem'me look at your slate minute.''
eyes, take it if you want to-" said
Jeff, good-naturedIy; but lust then
another boy shouted:
hnI uoL,o-,o
the postotfice! Let's see if it's a long
one' And running up he seized upon
a. handful of Hobron's white shirt
that showed very plainly through a
great rip in the elbow of his coat
sleeve. The other boys came crowd
ing about, laughing and hooting and
Hebron grew red with shame and an
GER
II won't wear the hateful coat" he
exclaimed, and tried with all his
might to pullit off but it fitted SO we'll
and so close that he could not remove
it, and there was the shocking rip full
in sight to make him the laughing
stock of the whole school.
"Oh! oh!'' he muttered, "if I could
| only have revenge on that tailor!''
But there was no use in fuming and
raging, and Hebron felt well assured
that the rent in his coat would stay
there till the neglected lesson was fully
learned. He glanced up at aneighbor-
Ing church clock; it wanted still twenty
minutes OF 9.
"1t is too bad," thought Hebron;
''but | may as we'll 60 about it at once"
SO he sat down on the school house
steps and began to cipher away very
| diligently, to the surprise Of the BOYS,
who were not used to seeing him in
such a mood. The lesson was really
not hard one, and to Hobron's own
surprise as much as any ones, by the
time the bell rang all the sums were
done in order on his slate. He walked
into the school-room with quite a
proud, independent feeling.
''1t is better than if had copied
them all and had a poor recitation,"
he said to himself
But where was the terrible rip in the
seam of his coat? One of his friends
had tried to pin it together for him,
| and he must have succeeded wonder
fully well, for there was no sign to be
seen Of the place where the rent had
been, and even the pin could not be
found. But when Hebron went home
at noon and told his mother, she
smiled a little and said she was glad
he had finished his arithmetic lesson
before school began.
Hebron got caught once more that
day. He was out wedding the lettuce
bed for his father in the afternoon,
when it suddenly occurred to him to
swing on the low branches of the
apple tree, and away he went. Up
and down in the sweet, fresh air, cling
ing to the elastic young bough, swung
Hebron, and he thought he was hav-
ing a splendid time, when down the
street came his Sunday-school teach.
er, and paused a moment by thefence.
"Why, Hobron!" she exclaimed
kindly, ''you are losing the collar of
from your pretty cOat!"
Down sprang Hebron, with blush
ing face, and back he went to the let
tuce bed, which this time got thor
ough wedding. Could it have been
that his teacher was mistaken? For
when he had finished and put his hand
up to his collar it seemed to be all
IlSllU, CutIc WIS uO UIOuDlG UuCIt.
Hebron began to grow careful. This
wonderful little coat that fitted him
SO we'll had a way of calling him to ac-
count the minute he neglected any
thing. Why, even if he slipped on his
shoes in a hurry without tying up the
strings, as boys sometimes will, just
as likely as not he would find one OF
his coat buttons hanging by a single
thread ready to drop.
So Hebron improved, and at last
he got in the habit of finishing every
thing he begun, because it was so
much more pleasant and satisfactory
to do so, and not because the mystic
rious coat was soready to admonish
him. Hegrew to be one of the prompt
est boys you ever saw, and it became
a real pleasure to see him undertake
anything, it was so sure to be we'll
done.
And now a strange thing happened.
The coat did not fit him SO well as it
did at first; it seemed to wrinkle and
set awkwardly on his shoulders. One
day the tailor came by, and when he
saw Hebron his eyes twinkled funnily,
and he said:
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