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Show I REFUSED TO GIVE TESTIMONY. Youngster's Attitude Put Mother, In Something of a Dilemma. ; On Frank's fifth birthday his moth- j er told him solemnly that henceforward hencefor-ward he must be a man. He must be kind and gentle, and, above all. must bo perfectly truthful, etc. A few days later on entering the children's playroom she caught her younger son, Robert, In the act of striking Frank a i blow in the face. ' "Why do you strike Frank. Robert?" the mother asked. "He hit me first," answered Robert hotly. "Did you. Frank?" she inquired. "No. I didn't." asserted Frank. I "See here, Frank." said she sorrow- ' fully, "don't you remembor what 1 j told you now you are five years old j that you must be a man, and must t never tell a He tell me did you j strike him? Now remember, the Lord soc6 and hears everything you do and , say and " "Does He know?" Interrupted Frank, "whether I Btruck Robert or i not, mother?" "Yes, my sonr He knows." j "Well, you Just ask the Lord If I I did. will you?" Her Discovery. "It's funny how different people look out of doors," said the flat dwell- , er. "Yesterday as I stood In my neighborhood waiting for a car a man looked at me, half Rmlled, then took off his hat I wondered at his check until I discovered through some sort of mental process that he was my new , groceryman. It was the first time I . ' had seen him in his coal and hat" 1 |