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Show BOBBY WANTED THAT AGATE If Persistency Could Have Cot It for Him, We Must Admit Ho Deserved It. The older hoys were playing marbles. mar-bles. Three-year-old Hobby wished some agates like his brother had and ; asked father for two cenls lo buy one with. The money was given to him anil he immediately wished to go to the store to make fhe purchase. So persistent did he become (hat father said : "If you don't keep slill aboiil (hat agate I will lake those pennies away from you." "What will yon do with the pennies If you do take (hem away?" lie asked. "Why, I'll put (hem bai-k In my purse." "Will you take (hem uptown when you go to Die ollice?" "Yes; I will." -Afler a few momenls' reflection, Hobby came back with : "And will ynu buy mo mi agate with them ?" |