Show more fun needed deacon johnon war wai greatly knocked shocked and arid displeased the other afternoon when he called at parson iten house to find the minister and all leilh lii family including the parsons brother the professor nat flat on oil their stoma stomachs clia lu tn t the lie front hill hall playing marbles the game was it friendly contest to see who could shoot it marble the greatest number of times through a hole cut in a it long paper box which was placed against again 4 the door the deacon was wits greatly shocked as has been said but after he lie bad watched the proc proceedings ceding for awhile he became perfectly sure that ho he could shoot a great d deal al straighter than the parson and before fe five ve minutes liu lit was on oil ills his stomach too shooting marbles with alic rest the deacon was wise in hla his second thought it really pays to lobe be infantile once in lit awhile one great fault of the american people which has had home ome distress distressing hig consequences haa has been this inability to get down and play once in awhile like boys and girls it is an art which we are learning slowly from foreign people and it comes easil easily y enough if slowly because the tendency la is after all till inborn the chinese know what they are tire about when they go out grown men and women mid and mandarins and society person persons to fly kites on the public street give ua us more ilk alko e the parsons marble playing in the front fron t hall liall boston transcript |