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Show Only ft Jilt, take. I Little 8-year-old Tom tiibson, of California, Cali-fornia, ought to make, a good lawyer if he keeps on. One day uot loug ago his fui her i mid to him: I "Tom, get my slippers; they are under the bed." Pretty boob Tom came buck empty : handed. "Fader," enid he, "you told a big lie." "How is thatr' said his father. "Well," replied Tom, "I looked under the bed and no slippers there. No slipperu there, fader." I "That wasn't a lie, my 6on" replied his father. "That was a mistake." The slippei.H were found and the incident forgotten until a few daysafterward. Turn came ruuning Into tho house with his lins betraying visible evidence that bo had been eating. ! "Tom," said his mother, "what have you been eating!'" j "Nothing, mother," replied Tom. j "Why, Tom," said hia mother, "there are crumbs all over vour mouth. Don't you know you have told me n story?" j "No," replied Tom, promptly, "that was! a mistake.'' |