Show mr Grate bars son lip my friend walter Gra said mr sta St abolt bolt beems to thit k that bi his sou son philip who lias 1118 judit jollit turned twelve ii N a remarkable boy mr Gnit Gra ebar lives in the suburbs tit in a house which has ha a lacco slate la fco root roof it appears that iu in the course cf c home bonie repairs repair 3 to lo this roof last fall many adall sm ill fragments of 0 slate blate were scattered cred about on tile the ground when the timo time came to clean up around wid and roll the law n this spring it occurred to mr grate bar that those bits bit s of slate al ate ought to be picked dup up lie lived in the country ion 1 but lie he hd had lived there long iong enough to know that grass grow brough slate after picking up tip about two hundred pieces himself and finding that it was buck back breaking work mr Gra thought he hail had better ret get philip to pick up the rest so he talked it oner oer with liim one night at dinner and philip undertook ill il consideration of the of fifteen clifteen cents to clean up the remaining slate on the following day it was ans understood tint thit till 11 the money was to be withheld until the completion of the work anti and that the n aik oik k mut must be done to mr Grate bars entire satisfaction ahen V hen mr Gra started for town next nest morning lie found philip on tho the lawn knocking a baseball with great earnestness nest ness george aged eran sevan rind and clarr aged five with an old grape basket near dear them were laboriously digging out and aad picking up the scraps of slate hows this philip 2 sahl mid mr grate bar 1 I thought I 1 lived hired you to pick up lip that slate you did 1 said philip enli im doing it dont disturb yourself ill attend to it p that night inight when mr Gra Grate bir get ct home lie he found that the nork ork had b been n carefully arad thoroughly done abero re was L no ground upon u chith aich he could nil withhold lilii 0 payment but he said to philip ilip 1 I hired you tai t do that work and you yen seeni seem to have got get G george e rge and clara to do it 1 1 I sublet the contract contrad W said philip artl and when wheat I 1 git the money im going to pay geor george and clara a nickel see mr Gra did see sec s ec and lie he paid over the money very chiei fully anil lie he hesitate to say to mrs Gra after the youthful ti I 1 contractor had gone gona to bed that lie thought p N was as a great boy new yolk sun |