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OBSERVATION
In his daily half hour confidential talk with his boy an ambitious father tried to give some good advice.
"Be observing, my son," said the father on one occasion. "Cultivate the habit of seeing, and you will be a successful man. Study things and remember them. Don't go through the world blindly. Learn to use your eyes. Boys who are observing know a great deal more than those who are not."
Willie listened in silence.
Several days later when the entire family, consisting of his mother, aunt and uncle, were present, his father said:
"Well, Willie, have you kept using your eyes as I advised you to do?"