A Reason For Not Marrying

Pretty Teacher (severely) - Did your mofher write this excuse? Bad Boy - Yes'ru. Pretty Teacher - Humph! It looks very much like one of your scrawls. Bad Boy - Mamma wrote it ; but, please, rna'am, she had sister Jeimie on one arm crying with a bumped head and brother Willie on the other with a cut finger, and a lot of sewing ou her lap, aod she was rocking the eradle with her kuees, aud she had to write with her toes. Pretty Tet.her (in the evening) - I ain very sorry, Mr. Poorchap, but I have changed idt miad. I shall never marry.