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Show THE YOUTH'S ALTERNATIVE. He Had a Good Reason for Wanting to Keep the Book. 'Please may I keep my book till Monday?" asked the small voice of a' small boy the other day over the tall counter of a London public library. "Why do you want 'to keep it?" said the- librarian. "Because I ain't finished it." said the little fellow. "How long will it take you to finish it?" quoth the librarian. "An hour," said the boy. "Well," said the librarian, "It is Saturday Sat-urday night, but we do not close for two hours. Go home and finish the book and bring it -back." The . boy thought hard, and the librarian li-brarian said: "Can't you do that?" "No," he said, 'T can't do that, because be-cause if I go home I'll get a bathJ" |