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Show BOY PAID FOR HIS WHISTLE Obeyed Father's Instructions All Right, but Made No Sort of a Hit With the Teacher. It all happened in a wayside village. She was the village schoolmistress, prim and proper, but a bad hand at iettling accounts with the local tradesmen; trades-men; he was ten years of age, one of her pupils, and son and heir of the village grocer. "Tommy," she yelled in class one morning, "don't you know it's rude to whistle in the presence of a lady?" Tommy was not abashed nor chastened. chas-tened. "But dad told me to whistle," he replied. re-plied. "Your father told ycu to whistle, Tommy?" queried the school teacher, in considerable doubt. "Yes'rri. He said when he sells you anything we've got to whistle for our money." Tommy then tock up a conspicuous position in the adjacent corner. |