Show IN THE LITTLE WHITE BOX fear of little understood terror too much for boy one day when the tailor s wife and her little boy went out for a walk they saw that an undertaker had moved into the shop next door the boy topped and looked at the coffin in the window what is that he asked he was a very little boy and had never seen a coffin his mother tried to tell him his eyes grew big wonder and fear will they put me in the white box he asked not if you are good said his mother only bad boys go into the little white box after that the tailor s boy tried to be very good he did not caper noisily about he obeyed every command ani at night he ed mother have 1 been good to daya one day the tailor s boy was excel tio nally quiet he lay in bed almost all day at night a great fear beset him oh mother he cried I 1 m afraid I 1 ve been good so good don t let them put me in the little white box his mother tried to comfort him but the white box was a very palpable ter and he could not get away from it three davs later a crowd of people came to the tailor s house they were dressed in black and came in carriages the tailors little boy was there but he did not see them he had gone into the little white box ew york press |