A BOY’S IDEA OF “HABIT.”
A public school teacher once offered a prize to the boy who should write the best essay in five minutes on “How to Overcome Habit.” A lad of nine years old carried off the
honors. This is what he wrote: “Well, sir, habit is hard to overcome. If you take off the first letter il does not change ‘abit.’ If you
take off another, you will have a ‘bit’ leli. If you take off still another, the whole of 'it' remains. If you lake off another, it is not wholly used up; all of which goes to show that if you want to get rid of a habit, you must throw it off altogether.”—
“Southern California White lUbbon
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 373, 18 July 1926, Page 13
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123A BOY’S IDEA OF “HABIT.” White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 373, 18 July 1926, Page 13
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