OCR Text |
Show x-M'M-x-:-x-x-m-x-:-xx-m-m-x-m-:-x-:.x-m-m-m-:-z-m-x-m-m-x-x Lesson in Neatness Calculated to Last 'Hey! Pick up that cloth you used in wiping your shoes!" 'commanded sister of brother early the other evening. eve-ning. "O, don't bother me. I'll be hack later," he said as be hurried out of the bouse. Time passed. Quite a bit of time passed ere he came home, and in the early hours of the morning be stumbled stum-bled up the steps to the frout door. A key was slipped Into a keyhole; a door swung open silently; and Just as silently he entered. He almost lost bis balance when a rug managed to place Itself in his way. He deci.led that he Just would have to see where he was going, and thereupon did be turn on the lights 'in the reception hall. There before him was a sign with the words: "A Big Surprise" and an arrow pointing the way up a flight of stairs. When he got to the top of tbe staircase another arrow pointed down a hall. Upstairs and down, through rooms and halls, and finally an arrow pointed point-ed to the kitchen, ne entered the kitchen and nn arrow pointed to a closet. He opened the door to find the last sign of all : "Now, wiil you please pick up tbe cloth you used?" He did. Springfield Cnion. |