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Show Small Boy's Excuse Availed Him Not There is one small boy in Kansas City, says the Star, who remembers the Shrine convention with a tinge of sadness. When Uncle Jack, who helped tell us how the corn grows in I-o-way, wrote that he would visit Billy's Bil-ly's family during the convention, Billy's Bil-ly's mother made a three-tier chocolate choco-late cake that was a work of art. After that Ions march uncle w;3 to be dined and refreshed properly. There had been so much talk of the appearance of the wonderful cake that Billy knew that, no matter how much he might be tempted, he musn't spoil that. But what would be the harm in lifting off that top layer, cutting a grand big piece out of the center of the other two layers and then puting the top on in place again? The scheme worked beautifully until un-til his mother's knife went through the top of the cake and struck the empty plate beneath with a sickening, hollow sound. Later Uncle Jack heard sounds that took him back to his boyhood days, and between sobs, "Well, I didn't spoil the looks of the old cake anyway." |