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Show A Bad Boy. A learned professor was left at uome alone one evening with the children. His wife know he was at work upon an abstruse article, and so. though she dreaded his absentmindedness, she thought .it would be safe to trust him by himself for once. When she returned the house was very still. She had ieft the children playing, but now th.?y were nowhere to be seen. She asked what had become of them, and the professor pro-fessor said their noise had disturbed him, and he had put them to bed. "I hope they gave you no trouble?" she said. "One did," the professor answered. "The one in the cot there fought like a young tiger when I went to undress him. He kicked and screamed and bit. A bad child! 1 got him in, though, hard and fast. He howled a while, but i:: an hour he fell asleep." The professor's pro-fessor's wife tipteied over to the cot. "Why." she cried, "that is little Tommy Tom-my White from next door!" |