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Show YOUNGSTER WAS A DIPLOMAT After His Explanation, What Wa There for the "Slender" Schoolmistress School-mistress to Do? The principal of a certain Indian school is very thin. Ali she is very sensitive about this quality. At ber school no one mentions it. Recently several of her boys had a long series of quarrels with the boys of the neighboring ward sc'hool. The principal talked and talked against lighting, but with no results. The fighting continued. Finally, one day, she announced that she would give the combatants at her school a thrashing if any more frays followed. A long time and all was quiet. Then one day came the usual fight and, of course, the inevitable lining up for the "lickin'." "Before I punish you, I want yo to tell me what you were fighting about this time," the principal told the recreant ones. Oil were silent, but finally the least fighter spoke up! "Well, the boys up at that building teased us and said that we had the skinniest principal in town, and we told them you weren't skinny at all, but slender, and then they began fighting. Needless to say no one got thrashed. |