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Show HAD HIS EXCUSE PAT. Small Boy Remembered His Father Explanation. Jackson Is a small boy of soma 8 or i years of age, whose father Is very anxious to make a scholar of him. Jackson's tastes do not seem to run In tho same channel, and, consequent ly, when tho monthly report Is sent home, his average Is usually In the 70s, with conduct marked very poor. Finding that counter-Irritation did not produce the desired result, his father made game of him In every conceivable conceiv-able manner, telling him that he would uever amount to anything If ho did not do better work His remarks n these occasions became so offensive offen-sive to the child who was rather sensitive sen-sitive and did not relish the Idea of being ridiculed In the presence of his brother and sister, that ho said to his father the last time he brought hom a report: "Father, why do ou talk to mo Ilk this and make so much fun of me?" Ills father replied. "Jackson, if I did not know jou were capable of doing do-ing better voik, or If I thought you woro dumb, I would never say a cross word to you about your marks " Last week Jackson handed In a report re-port with the usual luw average, and before pater famlllas could start In on tho usual language, spoke up er? quickly and said: "Father, I'm dumb!" Huston Post. |