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Show STOBT OF TWO BOTS. There are plenty of stories written about boys' schools, but a story of a Catholic boys' school Is rather uncommon. uncom-mon. "The Three Wise Men," by John T. Mclntyre in the September McClure's, is full of' humor and charm. In this case it was not the Three Wise Men who were the seekers, but two deskmates who bad to write a prize essay upon "the three greatest men In the world." "We two's gotta win," declares the more confident of the two. "How can we?" protests the other. "We don't know who the three greatest men was." "We can find out. We'll ask people." Accordingly they ask people, only to arrive at the deeply philosophical conclusion con-clusion that who the three greatest men were, depends on whom you ask. Nevertheless, in the end, the two boys won the prize. How they went about it and how they pulled it through is an amusing narrative, written with a thorough thor-ough understanding of a boy's point of view.. |