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Father of all says: "You do the best you can down on 

 that little earth of mine and if you grow well I'll give you a 

 better place to grow in. But to bring this matter of re- 

 wards a little nearer home. We find on certain pink- 

 tinted slips of paper passed around here to-night, $10 for 

 the best strawberries not less than ten. Now isn't that a 

 pretty large reward for the growing of ten strawberries, 

 and strawberries brought forth by the bushel? "Yes, but 

 it's for the very best strawberries, mind you." And how 

 was it about the onion weeding, didn't you ask for the very 

 best there too? Ten dollars for ten of the best strawberries 

 — dollar apiece — and Jack asked to pull weeds ten hours 

 in his very best style and no reward. Fm afraid big boys 

 sometimes ask of the little fellows ichat they don't ask of 

 one another. 



Reward is a legitimate mcentive to development and a 

 judicious use of it is lawful. More than this, you did not 

 ask Jack what he thought of the idea of life before you 

 brought him into life, you just put him down and told him 

 to grow. jSTow there is a little danger if you push him into 

 a corner, so that he feels that he is not fairly dealt with, 

 that he may remind you of this not having been consulted, 

 as a certain little maiden did we brought from the south 

 to take up life in our northern home. The matter arranged 

 of her return with us, and we said but little to the child 

 save the bare fact that she was to go. She was but four 

 and we acted on the plan, " least said, soonest mended," 

 and she on her part, said very little. But the morning 

 arrived for our departure, she permitted her traveling hat 

 to be banded down, and she kissed her mother good bye and 

 she climbed into the old stage, for her ride over the cordoroy 

 roads connecting with the railway, and later she settled 

 down into life by the rough Lake Michigan. So unlike the 

 life she had known back of the magnolias, without a word, 

 and we wondered if she were quite as bright as she ought to 

 be. She took the change so indifferently. Bat one day we 

 were obliged to remove her from the dinner table to have 

 her face and hands washed, and then the change came. A 

 storm wreath gathered on her face, but save by the scowl- 



