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Show Tbe Lesson Bessie Taught. L. S. Hunt tolls tho following little storj In The Examiner: Bessie must have wakened in the morn-ing morn-ing with a plan in her busy little head fqj tcachinpr. certain members of the Newton family a lesson. The first thing she did was to go into the library, and finding on a chair a new magazine that Harry had left thoro she pulled off a cover. "There!" thought she, "I'll teach Harry not to leave so valuable a thing as a book where it doesn't belong." Then she went into, the boys' room, and finding a borrowed book out of placo she remarked to herself: "This will never do. A borrowed book should always be carefully put away. I'll just destroy de-stroy this ono to teach Master Willie a lesson." les-son." So she soon defaced its pretty, bright cover badly. Next she visited Marjory's room, and finding moro dust on the floor than should havo been there, she evidently thought of the saying, "Dirt is misplaced matter," and gave Marjory a gentle hint by tipping the contents of the scrap basket out upon the floor. Then she went into the sitting room, and finding Alice's hat on a little work stand, bIio thought, "Another thing out of place, another lesson to be taught." So she pulled out the feather, leaving hat and trimmings on the floor. When all was done she cuddled up on the lounge, well satisfied with her morning's morn-ing's work. At the dinner table four members mem-bers of the family looked as though each wished some one else would speak first. Finally, mamma said: "I see Bessie has been trying to teach us again." Four voices answered faintly, "Yes." "She certainly has taught us once more that there should be a place for everything and everything should be iu its place," said papa. "Including Bessie herself," added mamma. mam-ma. And Bessie? Well, Bessie was a 6-months. old puppy, with innoceut, soft brown eyes. |