JOAN'S LESSON

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 7

JOAN'S LESSON

(Original.) > Joan was awery naughty little girt. She was nine years .old, but she wag always telling untruths. Her teacher, friends, parents, and acquaintances were all used to her naughty:ways.:[ Unfortunately she was rather a pretty little girl, and her mother did not riuhlsh her as often as she deserved.'Misleading people, being cheeky, telling untruths were all familiar tricks of I Joan's. I

One day Jier mother said that tho lamily were going to beautiful cariping grounds, and all tho family Wad tickets to go in. Joan was very .excited until the holidays came. * I "Oh! Ohl" cried Joan, running/in breathlessly one morning. "I have lost mv ticket for the holidays, and-i-" On, you have, havo you?" injternipted her father sternly, "'Well you cannot go away for the holidays. {' "Oh, it is not fair!" Joan pou'tcd, and then burst into fears. For on<!e a tnpk had failed. " . I

Daddy! My ticket is in the Jhed amongst the old furniture," Joan confessed next morning. "I hid it there, but I enn't peach it." | "Well, I am not going to bother. I lm. v. c ' laf' mough of your untruths," said Daddy. • • Sorrowful and tearful, Joan watched tho family go off merrily. After (that Joan never told ur.truths again. It'had taught her a lesson. , • [ „.., . . "SHY PANSY" (11). Ivilbirme. j '

YOU AND ME. \ (Original.) [ »onn to the rollicking ocean. I Bown to the glorious" sea, Fishing and swlmmluß, Hiving and skimming, ntt^e "enV 011 and me; And sailing In skiffs, Exploring the caves, Where rascally knaves I And pirates bold ,' Hid their treasure, • And bars of gold. ' •lust jou and me, [ norm by the sea, ' f Having together, adventures untold. Cl(y . "LONESOME" !(13). BEACHES. I . •;'. (Original.) j I love the sandy beaches, I The rolling, roaring sea, 1 jump right In .the breakers, ' i And shout and dance with glee; t My little boat goes sailing, \ Upon'the sparkling fonm. But soon holidays will be ended, ' ■ And; I'll have to go back home.! „ ', / i. , ■ "SKY MAIDEN" (7). Slasterton. , I