from him daily. Walking gravely in, he would deposit a piece of
silver, and receiving a roll and his change would march off
homeward. As this was a rather unusual proceeding in a cur of his
species, the baker one day followed him, and as the dog leaped
joyously into the window of the deserted house, the man of dough
approached and looked in. What was his surprise to see the dog
deposit his bread calmly upon the floor and fall to tenderly licking
the face of a beautiful child!

It is but fair to explain that there was nothing but the face
remaining. But this dog did so love the child! Boys who Began Wrong.

Two little California boys were arrested at Reno for horse thieving.
They had started from Surprise Valley with a cavalcade of thirty
animals, and disposed of them leisurely along their line of march,
until they were picked up at Reno, as above explained. I don't feel
quite easy about those youths-away out there in Nevada without their
Testaments! Where there are no Sunday School books boys are so apt
to swear and chew tobacco and rob sluice-boxes; and once a boy
begins to do that last he might as well sell out; he's bound to end
by doing something bad! I knew a boy once who began by robbing
sluice-boxes, and he went right on from bad to worse, until the last
I heard of him he was in the State Legislature, elected by
Democratic votes. You never saw anybody take on as his poor old
mother did when she heard about it.

"Hank," said she to the boy's father, who was forging a bank note in
the chimney corner, "this all comes o' not edgercatin' 'im when he
was a baby. Ef he'd larnt spellin' and ciferin' he never could a-ben
elected."