Show PY A schoolmaster as a punishment to one of his pupils for using profane langua language 9 e ordered him to take a pair of tongs longs and watch natch a hole in in ibi hearth until il he caught a mouse the boy took the tongs and I 1 de demurely aurely waited for the visit or directly after he saw a mouse peeping out of tho the hole ca cautiously u tio ully the coln tongs on either side of the hole he grasped the mouse and triumphantly swinging it aloft exclaimed by G d ive iv e got him ebone of the boys told of a scarecrow made by uncle ben it not only scared off all the crows that saw it but one crow was so frightened that he be brought back all the corn he stole three days before |