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September 8, 1909.
There was no dainty It
ran into the house at nooi
ing, seeming not the least
was nothing prepared.
"Aren't we going to ha
little girl asked in surpri:
"You will find somet
mother, without looking \
just too much bother to j
Helen went slowly off i
strange it was for mother
and butter, banana and co
good as if they had bee
mother had been sitting
"Will you please tie m
as she came back to the
"It is such a bother, bu
fully, as she laid aside h<
wasn't it queer for mc
could it be possible it wa
word so much, she pone
school ?
When she came home
called across the street i
llicre until her mother cai
had gone on the afternoor
"Why didn't you wait i
gone with you?" she as!
home.
"Oh. it is such a bothe
much of a bother to look
said mother, with a verj
eyes were twinkling.
i
iMvnuvi iiillii\.d UCI UVV1
tears began to roll down
moment she was in her n
"If yon will just forget
morning," she sobbed, p<
that word again!"
"Spoken like my dear 1
pily, dropping a kiss on t
all have to learn, dear, thi
we have to help each ot
have to do things for 01
\ very much dislike to do."
I THE SCHOOL
J The manager of an emi
/ some surprise that a worn
1 each of the girls lined up
/ ever been employed in a
/ them had been. Then, th
1 ' manager's curiosity prev
M "May I ask," said he,
anxious to know if these
ment of that kind?"
' "Because we are very
I man repueu, candidly, "ai
economical. I have foui
m those who have worked i
r best how to economize."
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THE PRESBYTERIAN
inch on the table when she
t. Mother was quietly sewbit
disturbed because there
ive any lunch ?" the hungry
>e.
hing in the pantry," said
ip from her work. "It was
>ut it on the table."
to the pantry, thinking how
to talk that way. Her bread
okies did not taste nearly as
n placed on the table and
across from her.
v ribbon again?" she asked
sitting room.
^ I'll trr " 4.1 J-1
V * ? HJ, oaivi IIIUIIII'I , UUIC;r
sewing.
>ther to think it a bother?
s because she had used that
lered, as she went back to
in the afternoon, Mrs. Gray
that she was to come over
trie from the city, where she
t car.
intil I came, so I could have
ced, 'as soon as mother got
r to get you ready, and too
after you down in the city,"
r serious face, although her
r little girl a bother? The
her cheeks, and in another
lother's arms.
how naughty bad I was this
;nitentlv, "I won't ever say
ittle girl," said mother, hap:he
round little cheek. "We
at we can not live alone, but
her, and many, many times
irselves and others that we
?Ex.
U* SliKVANTS.
ployment agency noted with
an in search of a maid asked
' against the wall if she had
minister's family. None of
e "New York Sun" says, the
ailed.
"why you are particularly
; girls have had an engagehard
up just now," the wold
1 must have a trirl who is
nd that of all the servants
n clergymen's families know
4
OF THE SOUTH.
AS THE CROV
Johnny Wheelan looked at t
ing on its hinge and wished, v
tried to swing on it. Father h
Johnny had meant to swine bi
taken only one or two rides
came the gate, dragging its to]
post.
Father would be sure to asl
"Look here," Johnny said to hi
have been just barely holding
pulled out so quick. I'm not
ing persuaded himself that t
was true, Johnny went aroui
"What are those black birds,
presently, as a long-winged li
yard above the treetops.
"Crows," answered father.
?
<-iu? wiicii you see mm, Jonal
'"I know 'em when they'r
"Where are they going, fathe
"Wherever it is, they are ta
it." answered Mr. Wheelan.
never forget it because when
you my father told me I could
less my speech was 'as the cr
to the truth, no cutting off c<
hard places. We never could f
to say; and the only speech tl
the crow flies.' "
"Father," said Johnny, qi
swincino- on ~ :
- o -o - - S"lv- J
down."
"That is told 'as the crov
Jewels.
THE BLACK
Little Ethel had been told 1
pencil marks in her father's
obedient that her father ofter
One day, however, she grew
pieces of paper, and thought
little mark on the edge of tlv
little mark in pne of the bool
little mark made her want to
pretty soon she was seribblir
Suddenly she thought of her
out the marks with the erasei
cil; but that only made long b
up the paper.
"Oh, dear, I can't unwrite t
Ethel, and she rubbed with th<
? Ki-i-l -
a nine note in tne paper.
Just then her father came
told her that the black marks i
like the marks of naughty wo
girl's hearts. The right way i
make the black marks; for af
very, very hard to rub them
Arms.
, My most passionate desire
fuller vision of God.?Tennysc
II
V FLIES.
lie little side gate hangery
hard that he hadn't
ad told him not to, and
it a minute; but he had
when, ker-plunk! down
p hinge right out of the
< him how it happened,
imself, "that hinge must
on, or it wouldn't have
that heavy!" And havhis
comfortable excuse
nd to the front porch,
father?" Johnny asked
ne of birds crossed the
"Don't you know a
than ?"
e close," said Johnny,
r?"
king the shortest cut to
"They always do. I
I was a little boy like
never be a real man unow
flies'?right straight
arners and going round
bol God, my father used
hat pleased him was 'as
aite suddenly, "I was
ust now, and it broke
v flies," " said father.?
MARKS.
that she must not make
books, and she was so
1 lent his pencil to her.
tired of scribbling on
she would just make a
e page. So she made a
cs on the table, and the
make a big mark, until
ig all over the reading,
father, and tried to rub
on the end of the nen
? r
lack streaks and mussed
hese marks!" cried little
i eraser until she rubbed
into the room, and he
on the white paper were
rds and actions in little
s to be obedient and not
ter they are made, it is
out again.?Shepherd's
is to have a clearer and
>n.
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