Wouldn't Do For An Illustration

In the primary dcpartment of a tow school, the teacher, a mild-eyed, pation woman, was trying to explain to the f'ou and five-year-olds how ccrtain living crea tures shed their coats - put off old skins and old shells, and put on new ones in th place thereof. She instanced particularly the serpent tribe, and told the littlc one how she herself had found, in the field among the stones, the perfoet skin of snakc. Miss Tot could not understand it. He big eyes were opencd very widc, an( wonder was in every feature. What wa the need of it? What did snakes get ou of' their skins for, and have to have ne ones? Said the teacher, impressively : " Now look, Tot, and set your little min( to work. When your old frock- you gown - gets all worn and dirty, what do yo do with it?" " My mauitna washes it, and mends i all up, real nice." " Yes - but suppose you have oulgrow it - suppose you have grown big, while th gown stays little - then what do you do? " Why- zon," answered the littlc ont with an emphasis that was positive "mitmmalets out 'c tucks!" Tho teacher nodded, smiled, and passec on to another branch of the subject.