Obedient Willie.- I —The teacher wanted some plums in order to give an objectlesson during school hours, and, calling one of the small boys, she gave him | ten cents and dispatched him . to the fruit stand down on the corner. "Before you- buy tho plums, Willie," she cautioned, "you had bettor pinch ono or two to make sure they are ripe." Little. Willie flitted away. Soon he; came back, and smilingly put the bag on 1 the teacher's desk. "Oh, thank you, Willio," said the toachor, taking up the bag. "Did you pinclnnio or two as I told you to do?" "Did I?" was the gleeful response, "I pinched tho whole bagful, and lioro'n jour ton eoulw,"—"Ltidus' lima ulnuxaaL.'-'
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 7
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119Untitled Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 7
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