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Show AD BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION ;enlous Youngster Had Excellent Excuse for What Looked Like Disobedience. Little Frederick longed to go bare-it bare-it and had begged his mother many Ties to allow him to do so, but she -i always refused. She was very ich surprised, therefore, to see the Je boy playing in the yard one .ernoon, minus shoes and stockings. "Why, Frederick!" she said, after 9 had called him In, "Who gave you rmission to go barefoot?" "God did, mother," replied the child, rlously; "I prayed and asked him." "Why, my boy," said the mother, '. don't believe God would answer naughty prayer like that." "Yes, he did," said Frederick. "You ways say 'Silence gives consent,' :ather." |