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Show THE YOUTH'S ALTERNATIVE. He Had a Good Reason for Wa.ntir: to Keep the Book. "Please may I keep my book tl'.: Monday?" asked the small voice oi i small boy the other day over the tal. counter of a London public library. "WSy do you want to keep W. said the librarian. "Because I ain't finished it," sa;. the little fellow. "How long- will it take you to finis it?" quoth the librarian. "An hour," said the boy. "Well," said the librarian, "it is Sa-urday Sa-urday night, but we do not close fc two hours. Go home and finish t':. book and bring it back." The boy thought hard, and the 1: brarian said: "Can't you do that?" "No," he said, 'T can't do that, b cause if I go home I'll get a bath: |