A TALE FOR THE YOUNG.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5107, 30 May 1885, Page 4

A TALE FOR THE YOUNG.

Once upon a time there lived .a wealthy Sunday school superintendent who had a very docile son ; he bad also a very unruly one. One day at dinner time be called them, and bidding them " eat, drink,' aud be merry/put.on his.hat and started down town. Before going, howef er, he charged them to stay in their own yard and not to go."to the circus, which was in town. When the bad boy had eaten his dinner, which iuciuded half of his brother's, he said: " Come, Willie, let's go and see the circus." " Cb, no, brother," replied Willie, "that would be disobeying dear father. I intend to stay at home and cut some wood for exercise, ..theu, as pa as often said, I will get a new cricket bat." Wicked Tom immediately said: "Everyone to his liking," and the two separated. That evening the boy that went to the circus, being questioned by his ma as to how he had spent the afternoon and the money she bad given him to buy a. b9ok with, replied that the tiger afc the circus had chewed a-man's arm off. . His ''ma said : " That is right, my son, always tell the truth. Your poor brother Willie had chopped over half a ton of wood when the axe caught in the clothes line and came down on his foot, cutting it nearly in two. He is now in oed with three physicians attending him. They say he will never be able to play cricket again." She had hardly finished when some men brought his pa in and laid him on the oil cloth in'the hall, and the circus manager said not to worry : they would give the tiger an emetic and forward the arm by McGulloch's express. Then Tom went into the pantry, and while masticating a piece of succulent pie, concluded that the way of the transgressor must be hard when you weren't in luck. There is no moral; this is simply a Tale for the Young. ■ '