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IT WAS THE PIE. The landlady of the boarding -qouho was out in *.ho baokvard wben the tramp entered and it disturbed him so that he caiuo near losing his usual aplomb. • Beg pardinur, ma'am,' he began, 'I came to see if you didn't lose a pie you loft out hereyeaterday to git rool.' • T«8, I did, and lam looking- for rho person "who took it. Waa it you?' ami .sho emne at him threateningly. Jle dodged and got ovor to tho other side. Nb'm, ft wasn't,' he replied, ' but I know who it was/ • Well, you teU m<> and I'll have him arrested and pnuishod ' 1 You don't li.ivu to, ma'am,' he gig-hod, ♦ he's dead,' and he got out the best way he oould. IF YOU WA.NT TO BK LOVED. Don't find fault. Don't beli^vo all the evil yon heap. Don't jeer at overybody'a rt ligious beliefs. Don't be rude to yonr inferiors in socia} i portion. ' Don't repeat gossip, oven if it does Interest a orowd. . • Don't nnderrate anything because yon don't possess it. Don't go untidy on the plea that everybody knows yon. Don't ooutradiot people even if you «• sur© you are right. Don't oonoludo that yon have n«*v#r h»d any opportunities in life. ' Don t believe that everyone ales in the -world ia happinr than you. Don't be lnqnixitiro about th«> affairs of even yonr most intimate friends, Don't Ret in tho habit of vulg-ariausg' ilfe by making light of the sentiment of it. Don't express a positive opinion unless too perfeotly nndanitanA what you are talk-

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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3174, 19 June 1900, Page 2

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Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3174, 19 June 1900, Page 2

Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3174, 19 June 1900, Page 2