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Show Practical Diplomacy. "Papa," inquired a young hopeful of some seven summers, as he looked up from a book he was reading, "there's a word here which puzzles me diplomacy?" diplo-macy?" "Diplomacy, my son," and the old man smiled paternally as he said it, "means this: Doing or saying precisely precise-ly the right thing at precisely the right time." "Ah !" retorted the young hopeful, "then I guess I exercised diplomacy last night." "How, my son?" inquired the fond parent "Why, I rolled Johnny over Into my place just before ma came in with the castor oil, and then back again just before she came to the other side." |