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Show I A Dull Scholar. Tho negro boy waa up for tho fifth tlmo on tho charge of chicken steal-, steal-, Ing. This tlmo tho maglBtrato do- cldod to appeal to tho boy'B father. "Now, see horo, Abe," Bald ho to tho darky, "this boy of youra ha been up In court bo many tlmc for stealing chickens that I'm tired of seeing him horo." "Ah don't blame you, sab," returned re-turned tho father. "Ah'a tlrod of seeing' see-ing' him here, too." "Then why don't you teach him how to act? Show him tho right way, and 'ho won't bo coming hero." "Ah has showed '1m do right way, Hah," declnred tho old man, earnestly. ' "Ah has Buttenly showed 'Im do right way, but ho Bomohow kjoops gottln' caught comln' 'way wld dose chickens chick-ens ! " Phi 1 adol phla Record. |