Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-05-24 | Page 3 | Kenw What He was Doing

KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING Boy Had Reasoned Shrewdly Before He Bought Those Particular Two Bars of Candy. And- then there's the office boy I heard about the other day. One of tlie employees had to work after hours-, nnd he got mighty hungry. "Jimmy," he said, calling the oilice-boy oilice-boy to his aid, "here are twelve cents. You go down to the lunchroom and buy me two of those nut chocohite-bars chocohite-bars thnt cost six cents apiece." Jiminie went on his way. Soon he returned. "Here you are !" said the employee,, his mouth watering for chocolate bars, as he reached for the candy, ": Instead of chocolate bnrs, the odice boy placed two sugar-coated pennut bnrs in his hands. "I thought I told you chocolate bars," said the employee, slightly peeved. "You did," returned the office boy. "But they didn't have any six-cent bars; they only had twelve-cent bars." The older person looked with pity at the boy, who said : "Don't you know that one twelve-cent twelve-cent bar would do Just as well as two six-cent bars?" "I know," replied tlie boy, with a grin, "hut I thought you'd give toe one." Charles E. Tracewell, in Washington Wash-ington Star.