Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-15
DAMS TRICK.

Once there was boy He wa
neither Very little, nor yet very bic.
And there wasn't anything eXtraordin-
airy about him until he learned clav-
er trick. This is how it happened:
Dan, for that was his name. had a
father and a mother who let him do
very much as he pleased. He had no
brothers and no sisters. which is gan-
erallv considered unfortunate for a
oy. BY the time he was large enough
to play with other children he was so
unlike them that he had squabbles
with them every day.
1t is true. as was said, that his pa
rents usually gave Dan his own wav
but they were very careful to sh ~
him what the consequences we
When Dams mother saw that here
was danger of his forming certain
wrong habit she would h,He a little
talk with him about it. and she started
list of words on sheet of paper
at the top of which she wrote "Dan's
friends This list was nea ly pasted
on a piece of cardboard and hung up
in the library.
When Dams mother found that he
vas becoming careless in his manners
O. in his talk she wrote upon the list
"Christopher Careless ESQ" If she
heard that he had quarreled with any
o. his plyamates the name of 'Johr
Quincy Quarelsome' Went down. Dan
WINGED every time there was an addi-
ton of this kind
But his good mother was a wise
woman. as mothers are likely to be,
SC she started also another list beside
he first. and headed in the same way.
"Dans friends" One dav when Dan
bad shown a particular kindness to a
boy who needed it. she wrote on list
No. "Mr. Kenneth Kindness.
This was pleasure to Dan. as it
also was to find "Mr. Ignatius Indus
try" written down one evening after
he had cheerfully done numerous err
rands and chores for his mother
Both lists grew gradually. for al!
Aost any lively, healthy boy has some
good points and some-not 50 good.
For time Dan was content to see that
Est No. | did not grow faster than
No, .. If Mr.. Finegan Fibber' went
down. Dan was uneasy until he had
enlisted as his friend "Thoophi'us
Truth.
Yet it seemed rather easy to encour-
age such fellows as "Ralph Rude"
Isaac Illmanners, "Caleb Crabbid," ;"
Cyrus Cruel Cornelius Cross
patch," "Maximilan Meanness :"
Marcus Nope = Gideon Greedy
"Fnoch Envy" Peter X Pride" Den
ris Discourteous "Old Mar Med
d csome.@ and the like. Dan thought
his mother must be trying very hard
to lengj hen this list of his friends.
Still he never could say that a single
friend came that he himself had no.
invited.
What troubled Dan was that list
number one continued to grow. Dan
thought he was entitled to have some
o. the names crossed off so after
thinking about it he asked his moth"r
if she would not erase the name Oh
Finnegan Fibber, ESD. for this friend
vas the most unwelcome of them all.
The request was granted and Dan
was considering which unwelcoma
chap he could discard next, when.
alas, his mother found on that ha
had told another untruth and Finno-
San came back, Dan was nearly
crushed. He could easily steer cl"ar
of any one of the disreputahle follows
for day or two at a time, hut they
would bob mp most unexpectedly. Dan
imagined that ne could sec them play
ing leapfrO@ and turning somcrsaultc.
and doing high jumps everywhere he
vent. They annoyed him AMAZINGLY.