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Show you was going to got married and give me a new pa, but when we got there he didn't show up, and I hope he never will." : During the next ten minutes that boy had the range of the boat, while his mother sat bolt upright and kept her eyes fastened on the ceiling. Detroit Free Press. " 11 1 ifc -I.I ! ! THE BOY EXPLAINED. A woman accompanied by her son, who was about nine years old, were passengers on the Staten. Island Is-land boat the other day. She was a very nervous woman, and ho a boy who wanted to sea what was going on. He wanted to see the boat leave the ship, but the mother seized his arm and said: "Harry, what did I tell you ? Now, you sit right down and keep quiet!" ' Later on he wanted to' see Castle "William and Ellis Island, but she gave him a cuff on the ear and exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Harry, must I whip you before all these people?" "But can't I see something!" ho protested. "Yes you can look, around the cabin." He was quiet for fivo minutes' and then edged away to look at an ocean steamer. He had only reached the window when the mother was after him, and as she shook Mm and flopped him down, she said: , . "I don't know why I brought you along!,, "I do"! he answered. "The idea of your acting as you do!" ' "You brung mo along," ho continued con-tinued in a voice which reached every art of the cabin, "becaiwe |