The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-23
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' 49," 'Ni''N' Wv l'h'NtNf'raN AAA'NAl IVA hif
n caught the little boy by the collar o
e. his REFER coat
d; You ought to have got inside
q Johnny. II you wanted 10 hide llon
IS me" he said What's the matter
G Did you think ! wanted 10 borrow
/. from you?'
NO. sir" replied the little boy
, hanging his head
Did ever tell YOU long stories OK
cept al Your earnest and insistent Sc.
licitaton?'
no, sir"
Then why avoid me-" asked the
old gentleman, reproachfully Il
didn't think ii Of YOU Johnny. never
thought You would run and hide from
your fond old grandfather unless You
had been doing something that Won
ought not to do and We're ashamed 10
look me in the face II couldn't be
that, could ito"
No. sir, answered the little boy
You're too well behaved for that,
aren't YOU? If you ever feel tempted
to do wrong Won would say to your
self, oh. no. | mustn't do that as
shall be unable to look my kind
grandpapa in the face without the
blush of shame mantling my cheek,
wouldn't you?"
Yes. sir"
q think | hear YOU saying it, said
the nice old gentleman. What's all
this on your coat?"
81 got in the mud, stammered the
little boy
Il inferred as much. | reasoned that (
either YOU got in the mud or the mud .
got on you What did you get in the +
mud for2 Been reading a health mag .
azine article? Wen. well, 4 nice /
pickle you're in. What made your lip
swell Ell? Mosquito Bit fl? No? I
Well I thought ii was a little late in
the season for mosquitoes. Maybe il
was humble bee know when |
was a little boy and got stung by a
humble bee I'd put mud on the swell
ing | expect that was what You were
doing and made a mistake and daubed
up the back of your coat instead OF
your lip. People make funny mis-
takes sometimes-eyen grown people
Still, | don't quite understand ,Iohn.
ny, why YOU tried to hide from me"
1T wasn't q humble bee. volun-
eered the little boy.
1T wasn't? Bless me- Well, if it
wasn't a humble bee and You weren't a
hopping kindlins and you didn't fall
Town and step ON ,'oHf Hip or run into j,
/ lamp post or the edge OF a door or
20 to baseball game and stop hot
ly, I cant imagine how you did it, :
ih2 What's that you said ." e
"Nothin'," replied the little boy
Perhaps that would be your wisast J.
curse under certain circumstances" ,
emarked the old gentleman. III You .
we're grown mp and had nice flowing
and a trunk railway hanging
mt of your vest pocket and 4 news !
aper reporter asked you how you
OF it wouldn't blame you for saying
othng. OF course You might have =
tended another little boy and he
hight have hit you in the mouth and
oiled you in the mud. You did fight =,
18th another little boy once, If youil .
amember. but then you promised i
our mother that you wouldn't do il :
gain OF course if YOU just let him Y
it you and roll you in the mud It y
asn't, strictly speaking, fighting
You bet | didn't said the little J
)y. You ought TO see him" a
The nice old gentleman made a Pc -
lliar noise ending in a clearing Of II
ie throat Then You broke your u
omise, he said That's very sad. =
'hnny I supposed that you would n
, through life meek and unresisting :
ter making that promise Your dear u
other viii be grieved I shouldn't q
Onder if you got what
II couldn't help it, protested the q
tie boy with just a suspicion of a q,
limper He called me names and -
Ished me n then ] Just pushed him e
little an -,
And YOU didn't think about your -
omise, eh2' M
II thought about It at first" vx
I'm tell you one thing, Johnny. -
i'd the nice old gentleman u never *
eak a promise, never. You never g,
ould either. You want to be care %
how YOU make EN- / always say. II
] do thus and so, if don't change :
J mind or won't 10 this or that 81
less I feel different about IL later q
That's the best way TO make
1mises. You remember that the q
yt time your mother wants you TO "a
lmise her anything Now. I think N
We 90 into this barber shop { can ~,
the kind colored gentleman to 40
.e most of that mud of and We can a
sh your face and perhaps mother -
1T notice it, q
] guess I'll tell her" said the little "a
?. bravely IN tell her that I =
Ike my promise an I'm sorry. but -
Won't do ii again unless / change n
mind
Johnny said the old gentleman. q
'ure all right q
If | don't Georges mother will
her. So it's an the same said The q