HOMESICK
"You ought to be contented and not fret for your old home," said the mistress as she looked into the dim eyes of her young Swedish maid. "You are earning good wages, your work is light, every one is kind to you, and you have plenty of friends here."
"Yas'm," said the girl, "but it is not the place where I do be that makes me vera homesick; it is the place where I don't be."
HONESTY
"No," said the old man, sternly. "I will not do it. Never have I sold anything by false representation, and I will not begin now."
For a moment he was silent, and the clerk who stood before him could see that the better nature of his employer was fighting strongly for the right.
"No," said the old man, again. "I will not do it. It is an inferior grade of shoe, and I will never pass it off as anything better. Mark it, 'A Shoe Fit for a Queen,' and put it in the window. A queen does not have to do much walking."
George, the elderly waiter, entered the office of the famous solicitor who usually lunched at his table in a certain restaurant and asked to see the chief.