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Show THE YOUTH'S ALTERNATIVE. He Had a Good Reason for Wanting to Keep the Book. "Please may I keep my hook till Monday?" askd the small voice ot a. small boy the other day over the tall counter of a London public library. "WJiy do you want to keep it?" said the librarian. "Because I ain't finished it," said the little fellow. "How long will it take you to finish it?" quoth the librarian. "An hour," said the boy. "Well," said the librarian, "It is Sav urday night, but we do not close for two hours. Go home and finish the book and bring it back." The boy thought hard, and the librarian li-brarian said: "Can't you do that?" "No," he said, ' I can't do thit, be cause if I go home I'll gel a bath!" |