One morning not long ago, the young autocrat blew into the office, and, tossing his cap at a hook, exclaimed:
“Say, Mr. Blank, there’s a ball-game down at the park to-day and I am going down.”
Now, the attorney is not a hard-hearted man, and was willing the boy should go, but thought he would teach him a little lesson in good manners.
“Jimmie,” he said, “that isn’t the way to ask a favor. Now, you come over here and sit down, and I’ll show you how to do it.”
The boy took the office chair, and his employer picked up his cap and stept outside. He then opened the door softly, and holding the cap in his hand, said, quietly, to the small boy in the big chair:
“Please, sir, there is a ball-game at the park to-day; if you can spare me I would like to get away for the afternoon.”
In a flash the boy responded:
“Why, certainly, Jimmie; and here is fifty cents to pay your way in.” (Text.)
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CITIZENSHIP IN THE KINGDOM