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Show WISE BOY SUBLET CONTRACT Benevolent Old Lady Lavishes Kindness Kind-ness and Attention on Wrong Lad Hired a Substitute. A benevolent old lady happened one day to bo visiting a school where a young Incorrigible was undergoing punishment for a series of misdemeanors. misde-meanors. The teacher cited him as "the worst boy In the school one I can't do anything with. I've tried everything every-thing in the way of punishment." "Have you tried kindness?" was the gentle inquiry. "I did at first, but I've gQt beyond that now." At the close of the visit the lady asked the boy If he would call and see her on tho following Saturday. A boy arrived promptly at the hour appointed. ap-pointed. The old Indy showed him her best pictures, played her liveliest music, and set beforo him a delicious lunch on her daintiest china. Then she thought tt about time to begin her llttlo sormon. "My dear," she began, "were you not very unhappy to havo to stand in tho corner before all the class for punlshmont?" "Please, ma'am," broke In the boy, with hlB mouth full of cake, "that wasn't me you saw. It was Pete. He gave mo ten cents to come here and take your Jawing." |