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 and have sore hands and find your clothing going to pieces. Moral — • 



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Concise. 



A teacher in a suburban 

 school, not long ago, gave 

 her pupils twelve minutes 

 in which to write an "ab- 

 stract." A shoe was the 

 subject selected b y her, 

 and the boys were to write 

 i n the first person. No lim- 

 it to the number of lines or 

 words was given them. 



Most of the boys wrote — 

 and erased — during the 

 whole time allotted, but 

 the teacher noticed one fel- 

 low who sat idle until the 

 time was within two min- 

 utes of expiring. As the 

 scholars filed out, she said 

 to him, "Brown, did you 

 finish your abstract?" 



"Yes, ma'am," he an- 

 swered. 



Curious to see what he 

 could have written in so 

 short a time, she looked 

 over the papers, and found 

 this : 



" I am a worn-out shoe ; 

 my coffin is the ash-barrel ; 

 my grave, the dump." 



She says that almost as 

 firmly impressed on her 

 memory as this remarkable 

 composition, is the expres- 

 sion of amazement on the 

 boy's face the next morn- 

 ing when hesawthe " loo" 

 mark on his paper.- Youth's 

 Companion . 



• 



The Raia of Darkness. 



Quidnusc — Are you in 

 mourning. Scribbler? I 

 notice you always wear 

 black now, when you used 

 always to wearlight colors. 



Scribbler. — Oh, no I'm 

 not in mourning; but I 

 bought me o n e of these 

 fountain pens a little while 

 ago, and I find it cheaper 

 t o wear black. — Boston 

 Courier. 



• 



Great works are per- 

 formed, not by strength, 

 but perseverance. — Steele. 



• 



If a man should happen 

 to reach perfection in this 

 world, he would have t o 

 die immediately to enjoy 

 himself. — H. W. Shaw. 



