THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS TEACHES.
A schoolboy about tea years old was the other day halted by a benevolent,-minded citizen on Second street, and asked i£ he liked to go to school. *' No, air!" was the prompt reply. " Then yon don't lore your teacher ?" "N —yes, eir. That ie, I didn't until yesterday, but now I do. I thhik ahe'a juut bully. "Why have you loved her since yestor» i day ?" "Well, you know Jack Cain? Well, ho h the worst fighter in onr room. Ho can lick me and two other boys with one hand tied behind him. Well, he was going to Hot mi last night, and he was shaking his fist at me in school and showing his teeth and getting me all excited, when the teacher saw him." "Did, eh?" " Tou bet she did, and. that way she took laim out; of that and. walloped him and
humbled him down, made mo feel as if sfa«"< were a mother to me! When school yjes out, Jaok dasn't touch He who wilted down, end when I hit him with a hunk of dirt, he even looked around! I (Tuobb I'm going to try and liok him in they morning before he gets over feeling humble.-" "Detroit Free Press."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2167, 4 February 1881, Page 2
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