A Good Reason Why.—A teacher, wishing to improve the occasion, said to the boys at the conclusion of a strawberry festival, " Have you enjoyed these berries to-day ? " Yes, sir," came from all sides, with unmistakable heartiness. " Well, children, if you had seen these berries growing in my garden, and had slipped in through the gate without my leave, and picked them from the vines, would they have tasted a3 good as now P " "If o, sir," was the prompt reply. "Why not?" " Because," said a wide-awake boy, " then we shouldn't have had sugar and cream with'em." ' A Kansas pastor has wisely declined an addition of one hundred dollars to his salary, on the ground that the hardest part of his labours heretofore has been the collection of his salary, and it would kill hini to undertake to collect one hundred dollars more. 1
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1851, 8 December 1874, Page 2
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