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Show HIS GOOD -MONEY THROWN AWAY. Why Old Man Potts Regretted Giving Bill College Education. "Well," observed old man Potts, "I've spent a heap of money on my boy Bill's education, more'n $900 jest to see him through Yale. And I ain't through yet. It shorely makes me sore to think of the money I'm wastin' on a boy who ain't got as much sense now as he had before he went to college." col-lege." "What's the matter, father?" asked Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little hard on Bill." "No, I ain't, Mary," answered the old man. "Jest to show you a little while ago I says to him I thinks it was going to rain to-morrow. What fool answer d'ye suppose he made me?" "I'm sure I don't know, father." "He begged my pardon!" Harper's Weekly. |