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Show DIFFICULT. A teaolier in a certain eastern school asked her olass to draw a pic-ture pic-ture Qf that which they wished to be whonthey grew up. The pupils went dillg&ntly to work with paper and. W pencil, some drawing pictures of soldiers, sol-diers, policemen, and line ladles, etc. They all worked hard, but one little girl, -who sat quietly holding her pad and pencil In hand. The teachor, observing her, asked: "Don't you know what you want to be when you grow up, Anna?" "Yes, I know," replied the little girl. "I know I want to be married, but I don't know how to draw it." Harper's Weekly. ? & "Miss Pechis," said Mr. Timmid, at the other end of the sofa, "if I were to throw you a kiss I wonder what you'd say." "Well," replied Miss Pochls, "I'd say you were the laziest &y man I over saw." Philadelphia Press. & & "Why does a fellow on a small salary, sal-ary, like Smallchlnk, dress so extravagantly?" extra-vagantly?" "He's afraid people will think he is poor." "And why does old millionaire Keg-gercoine Keg-gercoine dress so shabbily?" "He's afraid people will think he Is rich." Puck. ? & i Had Mr. Fairbanks wanted to do something Mr. Taft couldn't, he should have rescued some child that had fal- ; Ion Into a well. Atchison Globe. v? "Remarkable phenomenon In our neighborhood this morning." "So?" "Yep. The iceman left hailstones as big,as hen's eggs." Cleveland Leader. & & & The class In elementary arithmetic had progressed as far as ten. "And what comes after ten, Harry?" the teacher asked. "Jack," said Harry. Newark News. |