The Wicked District Telegraph Messenger

Yes, little boys, it is very naughty to be naughty, and if you do what you are told not to do you will in the end wish you had not, and you will not flnd anything in the story papers to console you either. Listen to this story of a District Telegraph messengers, and how his Bins laid him out. Like all District Telegraph messengers, he was a very bad little boy. His uniform was alwaysdirty, ed of flsh and cabbage, and he never took his bat off in the house, and he alwaysleffc parcela at the wrong addresses, and ho never knew where any place wa, and lic was rude and uncivil. Bul one day n wise bid gentleman sent liim to a watehmakers with an ordei fora little parcel, aud told hini to hurry up, ar.d to ride both ways. So the boy went quickly and got the parcel and put it in his trowsers pocket. He thought it was a watclt. lint it was a pedometer. A pedonaeler ia an instrument tliat registers every step you take. And this pedoineter comroeiiced registeiïng right off, just as the boy commencrd letting liimself out. First Uie boy went threo biocks out of hia way lo seo a safe lioisted to the third story of a building. And the pedoineter registeml that llttlo trip. Then he met some other messengerboys and played tag for a while. Ani the pedometer kept on registering. Then he saw a policeman taking a drunken man to the station, and he joined tbe procession for a few blocks. And tht; pedome.cr was right on hand witli its little register. Then he met some more messenger-boys and tliey had a nice little game of tag. And every time he went over another s boy'a back, the pedometer ïegistered. And vvhen he was quite ready, hc rcturned to the old gen'leman and gavo bim the parcel, and said lie had rldden both ways, and that the watcbmaker liad kept hini waiting. But the old gentleman was a scieutific old gentleman, and whcin helooV.ed at the pedometer, he wan so mucfa interested in the phenomenal record the boy had made, that he went around and told the cpmpauy about it, and kept on wonying the comp.iny, until bow that boy lias more time than he wants to play tag and leap-frogand get larruptd by hls kind parents. Boy?, be good, and don't fooi with