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Show REALLY A SIMPLE MATTER Johnny's Reference to Dictionary Must Have Given Him Considerable Enlightenment. "Father," said the son, looking up from a book with a puzzled expression on his face, "what is pride?" "Pride," returned the father, "pride ! Why a Oh, sure you know what pride is. A sort of being stuck up, a kind of well, proud, you know. Just get the dictionary; that's the thing to tell you exactly what it is. There's nothing like a dictionary, Johnny." "Here it is," said the latter, after an exhausting search. "Pride being proud." "Urn yes, that's it," replied the father. "But" "Well, look at 'proud.' That's the-way; the-way; you have got to hunt these things out, my lad." "I've got it," answered Johnny. "Pre pri pro why " "What does it say?" " 'Proud having pride.' " "That's it ! There you are, as clear as day. I tell you, Johnny, there ls nothing like a good dictionary when, you are young. Take care of the binding, bind-ing, my son, as you put it back." Pathfinder. |