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Show PUSHED SCHOLAR TOO FA1 Everything Would Have Been Lovely If Teacher Had Stopped with the First Verse. A teacher in a Philadelphia Sunday school was so proud of her Hock that she invited several visiting ministers and elders to attend one of fcer classes and be encouraged and jplil'ted by the observation of juvenile proficiency proficien-cy in Scriptural studies. The session opened auspiciously. Little gir's with yellow plaits and little lit-tle girls V, i tli black braids lisped their response -.u a manner to gladden the heart of any teacher of "young ideas." Then came the fall which invariably follow pride. Turning to a bullet-headed, freckle-faced freckle-faced little boy, whose ears seemed about to carry off his head like an aeroplane, she asked him to repeat a verse from the Scripture, but her only answer was a vacant stare. "Come, come," said the teacher, "do ran mean to tell me that you can't repeat even one verse?" "Naw," replied the small boy, "I know one." "Well, then, let me have it," said the teacher, sharply. "And Judas went out and hanged himself," repeated the young unregen-erate. unregen-erate. His teacher's lips wreathed themselves in a cynical smile as she said: "Very good, and can you give me another?" The boy nodded vigorously. vigor-ously. "Sure," he replied. "Let me have it, then," responded his teacher in her softest, purring tones. To her consternation the little reprobate rep-robate said:. "Go thou and do likewise." like-wise." Me enjoyed a holiday the rest of that afternoon. |