He Couldn't Explain

A yery sm?ll newsboy, who had inst Bold his last paper, leaned against the iron Iamppost and shouted with all his hiug power: "Pa-i-i-per! Tweivy-clack pa-i-i-per! Extry tyelvy-cJack I" The boy was working overtirue, sither from forcé of Jiabit or bocause of his natural esuberauce. It is not uucomniou iii Calhonn place for a boy to stop short aud yell several timos, meraly to relieve himself. It happened that a pedestriau was attracled by the shouts of the boy agaiust the lanippost. He smiled as he looked at the youugster aud then said, "All right, give rué oue of your papers. " That startled the boy. He looked sheepiahly at the man, rubbed his haiid iuto his pocket and said, "I aiu't got auy. ' ' "Didn't I hear yon ealling a 13 o'clock narjer?" "Yes, but I didn't mean" - It was too much of in explanatiou. A professor of psychology who hadstudied the lavs of cnconscious cerebration mifht have told why the boy stood on the córner shoutiiig papers when he had no papers to sell, but the boy adopted a less