"Cabbage, fifty cents."
A CHEERFUL GIVER
Bobby's father had given him a ten-cent piece and a quarter of a dollar, telling him he might put one or the other on the contribution plate.
"Which did you give, Bobby?" his father asked when the boy came home from church.
"Well, father, I thought at first I ought to put in the quarter," said Bobby, "but then just in time I remembered 'The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,' and I knew I could give the ten-cent piece a great deal more cheerfully, so I put that in."
INHERITED
Vincent was altogether too garrulous in school to please his teachers. Such punishments as the institution allowed to be meted out were tried without any apparent effect upon the boy, until at last the head master decided to mention the lad's faults upon his monthly report.
So the next report to his father had these words:
"Vincent talks a great deal."
Back came the report by mail duly signed, but with this written in red ink under the comment: