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Show GOD WAS NOT DISPLEASED. How Little One Obtained Absolution for a Fib. Llttlo Dorothy Perkins wns usually a truthful child. When sho was not truthful sho was plausible'. Coming in from her walk ono morning morn-ing she Informed her mother that sho had seen a lion In tho park. No amount of persuasion or reasoning reason-ing wavered her statement ono hair's-breadth, hair's-breadth, so at night, when Bho slipped down beside her kneo, her mother said: "Ask God to forglvo you for that lib, Dorothy." Dorothy hid her faco for a mlnuto; then sho looked straight Into her mother's oyes with her own shining like stars, and. said: "I did ask him, mamma dearest, and ho said: 'Don't mention It, Miss Perkins. That big dog has often fooled mo.'," |