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One of the most clifficult thingg to do gracefully is to chauge the current of unpleasant couversation. lut the srnall boy can do it if clrcumstance malte t necessary. "Thomas, wül you please teil me why you pulled up the onions from my Danvers onion bed? How many times have I told j'ou to keep away from the gardeñf" Thomas K"ew ' '" tne face, and nis grandfather went on to depict the evil fate that was sure to befall boys who went around destroyinf; what their elders had planted. Meantime, Thomas had pulled himself together, and as the barapgue v;is concluded he said, witli a sniile, referring to an event of the previou wei k: "Pity our old rooster died, wasn't it.