Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — The Transformation of Percy. [ARTICLE]

The Transformation of Percy.

His name was Johnny, and his ambition was to be grown up, says Answers. He had watched Cissy and Percy; but that’s another storiettte, as Kipling says. “Papa ”he piped, as he walked with his dad on the beach at Tlddleton-on-the-Tide. “what’s under those rocks?” “Limpets!” snapped papa. This was the first question. “Wouldn’t they rather walk abont, pa?” “No!” rapped out pa. “They prefer to cling where they are!” “Is everything that likes clinging to something else a limpet, pa?" “For goodness— Yes!” roared father. Johnny thought “Well, pa,” he concluded, “is Percy a limpet, pa, when he says good-by to Cissy in the passage?”