| Show JOHN WILSONS GOOD COY BOY doting othia fi bather gets some anion as to john wilson was a thrifty mecha mechanic tife with a nice home a cheery wife and three children the yol ingest or of whom was a boy named john the elder john was wag a pious christian man who tried faithfully not to commit the sin of idolatry in ills his feeling for ills his son but it was impossible ile ho worshiped the boy the young youn john then five years old was a real boy in all the term implies his faglier was sure he was the best alit tl U e 01 r lived and already 1 he saw him a as aa a aman man preaching L good to all men for that nv was as tho the hope in the elder johns bosom one lay day lien hen the father came back from froin the shop lie ho brought with him a pretty tin cup on which was written in gild letters to a good boy ile ho gave it to to ills his son and the child looked up into 11 his Is face like an ang angel el and smiled two days later as john wilson came cama homeward when the day was wag lone done lie he was thinking proudly of liis ills boy va alio 10 would meet him at the kate gate when jils hla attention was attracted by a do dog coming camill down the street with a tin cup tied to 0 his tall tail and ian knocking aching ra ragtime I 1 out of the sidewalk boore mr wilson could 0 get at out of tte way till t the 1 1 do dog dashed between his legs jess lipset upsetting 1 him into a coal hole and piling in till on top of him in ili a tangle that was ter rifle the dorot dog alvay at last ast and when the police policeman nial helped the bruised and battered mechanic out of the hole lie he discovered a string atrin wound round I 1 his AS leg and attached to tho the end of it a tin cup which looked as if it had bebop through ai seven wars you nan an kee keep this as a souvenir said th pleasantly what is la it asked askea johp john wilson taking takimi 0 it its a tin cup belonging to some of them little devils around the cerii corner r I 1 guess said bald the policeman twirling tv irling his clu club b significantly the father of john wilson jr looked at the battered im in his hand dirt in gilt letters which he lial had not forgotten were e the words I 1 to a goodbar good boy Bor detroit free press |
