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Show HAD PUT BUTTON TO USE. rVhy Youngster Could Not Produce "Pursuit of Happiness." This iory Is told of a Washington i school principal who was trying to ninke clear to hla clasa the fundamental fundamen-tal doctrines of the declaration of In-I In-I dependence: j I "Now, boy.." ho said, "I will give I jvou en, h three ordinary buttons. , Here they are You must think of the brat ono as representing Ufa. r,r th. ucond ono as represent Inn libeny, snd the third one as representing the pursuit of bnpplnes. Next Sunday I will ask you each to produce- th three luilon and t,cll me what they repre-.nl." repre-.nl." Tho following Sunday, n accordance accord-ance with Ills plan, the teacher Interrogated Inter-rogated his class on lh auhjoct of the buttons. "Now, Johnnie," he ssld to the youngest momlier, "produce your three buttons and tell me what they Hand for." Whereupon th youngster began to weep. I "I ain't got 'em all,- ha .ohbed. ioldlng out two of th button. I'llnre life an' here liberty, but iBomuier aewed lh pursuit o' happf. lesa on my pants." Hurpcr Weekly |