AN INQUISITIVE BOY

Bobbie was taken to church for the first time, and his dear Aunt Lou,

who took him there, "just wondered how he would behave." She soon

discovered, for Bobbie was no sooner seated in the pew than he observed

a very bald-headed man two seats to the front, and exclaimed in a loud

whisper which set everybody smiling, "Oh, Aunt Lou! there's a man with a

skinned head!" Aunt Lou's face was crimson, and she shook him, but it

did little good, for when the minister took his place in the chancel,

the boy remarked, "Another man with a skinned head!" Things were getting

uncomfortable, and reached their climax when the boy, seeing the choir

up in the gallery, called out, "Oh, Aunt Lou! what are all those people

doing up there on the mantel-piece?"

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