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Show Her Resignation. "Papa," she said, "I am very angry with Geraldine." "What's Geraldine done?" asked her father. "Why, I told her a secret last summer," sum-mer," said the little girl, indignantly, "and she has just told me she's going go-ing to tell it." "That's very wrong of Geraldine. Has she any excuse?" "Why, I told her it was wicked to tell a secret, and what do you think she said? She said: 'Oh, I know, but I've resigned from that secret?' "Papa," she concluded, earnestly, "you can't resign from a secret, can you?" The mental processes of children are past finding out. |