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iTs? WPMMMMHH m H S? To stoat z V t . w u- W hi ft- Mi "HE WANTED TO LEARN r, HOW TO CRY . s' Rob Robinson Wanted to learn x how to cry, but you can't cry "without a' reason and he had no "rason. I" 'His father was not poor, so he "'had plenty" to' wear in the winter, and his' lather was not 'rich', so ' Rob could 4go barefooted in .the summer. He went swimming .with the full consent of his molh- V"3 i4 could -muss uo as much as he pleased and nobody complained. No wonder he was happy and never cried. ' You sayhe was silly to want to learn to cry,and maybe -he was, but if so, he was a great deal like some other folks. For ex-' ample, some boys want to leantto well, this is -what they do: They take some pieces of. weedy roll them up into a. paper and set. fire to one end of it.. Th.at would - er, and when he got into a -fight, ohis father only asked him two ' questions : "Was there any rea son -why you, had toP-arfd. "Did - you fight fair?" He was never good enough to bewailed a ''teacher's pet," or bad - enough to be sent up to the prin cipal. His' folks weren't so proud jythat he - couldn't make rsome moneywhen he had a chance and he had a room at home which "he be useless enough, but not con tent with that, they put the other end into their mouths and keep the thing burning .by sucking at it, like a baby at a bottle.' Fool ish ? Well, it usually makes' them' sick to begin with, wastes money, gives them bad, breaths and makes them not quite so strpng and not quite so smart. Foolish ! Why learning to cry is sensible alongside learning , to smoke.