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Show Obeying Orders. An eight-year-old was playing In the yard of his homc and his mother, knowing know-ing tho easily-opened gate was a terrible temptation to the yotlngstcr to transfer his activity to the street, thought It well ,to warn him. "Bobby," she ordered, "you must not go out through that gate to the street." Receiving the little fellow's word that her command would be obeyed, she left him to his games. Not long afterward the mother looked from an upper window win-dow and saw the family's pride playing in the forbidden street. "Didn't I' tell you not to go out of the gate?" she called to the youngster. "Well, I didn't, ma," retorted the heir, conscious of his Innocence. " 'Deed I dldn'l. I clum over tho fence." Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger. |