Show A BOY AND AN ORANGE laurence antton tells tella how ile he succumbed to a temptation lit in youth the hoy boy was taught from the earliest awakening ol of hla his reasoning powers po Ners that truth was to be told and to be respected spec ted and that nothing was more diore wicked or more ungentlemanly than a broken promise lie ile learned very ven early to do as lie he was told ind and not to do unter under any consideration what he be had bid said he would not do upon this list last point lie he was mas strictly conscientious although bouce literally lie he beit beat about the bub ills his aunt margaret always devoted to plants ind and to fl flowers owens had bad on the back stoop of ills his grandfathers house a little littie grove I 1 of orange and lemon trees in ili pots some one of these was usually lit in fruit or in flo flower Ncr and the fruit to tile the roy boy was a groat great temptation lie ile was very fond of oranges ind and it seem od ct to him that a homemade home made orange which lie he had never neer tasted I 1 must inest be much better than a grocers orange us as homemade home made cake was certainly preferable even to the wonderful cokes made by the professional mrs Milder borger ger ile he watched these little green lorfing oranges eq from day adny to lay its as they gra gradually divilly grew big and anal yellow in ill the sun ilo promised faithfully that lie he would not ilot pick any but lie had bad a I 1 notion that soma of them might drop off lie nevel hook the trues trees bv because catic lie he sal aid said s 11 lit hr would not kut bill lie ho shook the stoop and lie hung about the buh which indich lie wu wal too aiom st fit to beat one unusual a lj tempting orange which lie he had kiowa front from its bud hood finally overcall over cann ilia him ile he did not pick it off lie he d did 1 I DOI no shake it off lie compromised mit with hii bit conscience by lying oat flat on ills his back anil and biting oft off a I 1 piece 0 of f it it wis was not 1 very good action nor was it a I 1 good orange and for that reason perhaps he be went ent home immediately ind and told ou on lie ile told ili liis mother lie ile did not tell his aunt margaret ills his moch er did not seem to lie its much shocked at liis his conduct its iia be was but in her onn ona quaint wily way she gie gale him to nilder understand der stand that promises were not made mad to be cracked any more thiu than they were made to be broken thit that ho be had been false to himself in heart if not in deed and that lie must go back and make ill t fill all right ith ills his aunt margaret she did not seem to be vory very much shocked either ile he could not tell R by but they punished the lioy boy they made him eat the rest of the orange ile he lost all subs subsequent luent interest in that tropical glide glade and lie he has never cared much for domestic oranges nitice st nicholas |