Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09

egg for?"
Because he was %freckled."
= "It's wicked to call Pa says
So"
Then this Ed Peters took your faith
er's shirt and panties and threw 'em
in the creek. That was rather mean,
because he didn't have time to dry
them out, and when he went home he
got another licking"
What for? "
For going in swimming. You see,
sometimes little boys go in swimming
and get drowned an their parents have
to forbid them to CO."
That's what pa says, but | can
swim dog-fashion."
'"That means with one foot on the
bottom, doesn't it?"
mo, siri | can take both feet off
when the water isn't too deep. There's
a bathing beach down to the lake, an
l went there before" :
"Yes?"
Before pa found it out"
"Oh!"
but pa went swimmin' when he was
a little boy?"
Maybe he did"
"Well, you said he did"
perhaps l was only joking"
"Do you mean you were lying?"
"Eh! What's that? See here, young
man, it strikes me that you might have
put that a little more AUTOMATICALLY
"When l say I was only jokin', pa
says that often means I was lying, an
falsehood is always f%alsehood, whether
it is meant for a joke or not"
"Well, I'll take it back. Your father
did go in swimming, pretty much every
chance he got; but I'm sure he found
out how bad it was when he got older,
and that's what makes him SO anxious
to keep you away, from the lake"
The little boy looked thoughtful. 5
what else did pa do?" he asked,
presently.
"Le' me see," said fathers old friend.
"I remember once he split a whole lot
of kindling wood for a poor old lady
who hadn't got any little boys of her
own"
Glow much did she give him?"
"She gave him her blessing"
"Fuh!"
"Don't you think that vas a nice
thing to got? Didn't anybody ever
tell you that virtue was it's own re-
ward? Besides which that dear old
lady baked awfully good ginger cookies
and I know of one time she begged
him off from a trimming down that an
ugly dispositioned farmer was going to
give him."
"Why?"
"Well. there was apple trees grow
ing on his land and he was awful par
ticular about those apple trees"
did pa take some of the apples?"
81 couldn't say as to that, but
when tho farmer caught him his peck
cts were bullying out rather suspicious
ly, and | guess the farmer thought he
had. Anyway, the old lady begged him
off, and this shows that kind actions
are never wasted"
81 stole an apple once"
"WhGt. o did? Dear me! That
vas a shocking thing to do"
well. it wasn't a very big apple"
"The size doesn't make any differ
ence. 1t was just as wicked as if you'd
taken a big one. Wasn't there a big
one or was it the only one?"
mo; there was some big ones, but
I thought if l took one of them they'd
find it out"
"They didn't, find it out, them"
"Yes. sir, they did-an' pa spanked
me. He said if l wanted apples to
come and ask for them.
"Quite right"
$50 l ask for them now"
That's the way to do" VT
There was a step ON the veranda and
the little boy wriggled down from the
old friends lap and embraced the legs
of his male parent ~, p
"HeHo!" said the father. what are
you people talking about?"
"I was telling him about the time
when you and 1 we're small boys and
the fun we had"
The father looked annoyed. "Jim,"
he said; II thought you had some
sense. That boy is hard enough to
keep in the right path now."-Chieago
Daily News.