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One of the most diliicult things to do gracefully is to chance the curreut of impleasant conversation, but the small boy can do it if circuinstancew make if necessary. "Thomas, will yon please teil me why you pulled up the onions from my Danvers onion bed? How many times have I told you to keep away from the garden?" Thomas grew red ia the face, and his grandfather went on to depict the evil fate that was sure to befall boys wlio went around destroying what their elders had planted. Meautime, Thomas had pulled himself together, and as the harangne was concluded he said, with a smile, referring to an event of the previous week: "Pity our old rooster died, wasn't it. grandpa?"-