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Show REALLY A SIMPLE MATTER: I Johnny's Reference to Dictionary Must I Have Given Him Considerable I Enlightenment "Father," said the son, looking up from a book with a puzzled expression on his face, "what Is pride?" 1 "Pride," returned the father, "pride 1 1 Why a Oh, sure you know whnt ptido Is, A sort of being stuck up. n I kind of well, proud, you know. Just I get the dictionary; that's the thing to I tell you exactly whnt It is. There's- I nothing like n dictionary, Johnny." I "Hero It Is," said the latter, after a& 1 exhausting search. "i'rlde being I proud." "Urn yes, that's It." replied 1 the father. I "But" I "Well, look at 'proud.' That's the- 1 way; you have got to hunt these thing I out, my lad." I "I've got It," answered Johnny. "Pro- 1 prl pro why " 1 "What docs It say?" I " 'Proud liuvlug pride.' " 1 "That's, It I There you are, as clear I as day. I tell you, Johnny, there In- 1 nothing like n good dictionary when 1 you nre young. Take care of tho bind I Ing, my son, ns you put It back." I Pathfinder. I |