"What!" said the master, "and has John Tubbs borne all the blame without saying a word?--Come here, John." "What's the matter now?" said John to himself. "Something else, I suppose. Well, never mind, so that poor little Sam Jones has got out of his little scrape." "Now, boys," said Mr. Brill, "here's John Tubbs. Look at him!" And the boys did look at him as a criminal; and John looked very much like a criminal, and began to think that he must be a bad sort of fellow to be called up in this way by his master. Then Mr. Brill, the master, told the boys all about the broken slate,--that John did not break it, but bore all the blame to save Sam Jones from trouble, and had gone without his milk and play without a murmur. The good schoolmaster said that such conduct was above all praise; and, when he had done speaking, the boys burst out into a cheer. Such a loud hurrah! it made the school-walls ring again. Then they took John on their shoulders, and carried him in triumph round the playground. And what did John say to all this? He only said, "There, that'll do. If you don't mind, you'll throw a fellow down." T. C. [Illustration] CLARENCE AT THE MENAGERIE. ON the first day of May, Barnum's menagerie came to our town; and Clarence went with his papa to see the animals. He enjoyed looking at them all; but most of all he liked the monkeys and the elephants. He fed the monkeys with candy, and laughed to see them hang by their tails while they took it from his hand. They ate all the candy he would give them, and did it in a very funny way. Clarence's papa said the candy had better be eaten by monkeys than by boys; but I doubt whether Clarence was of that opinion. Clarence was afraid of the great elephant when his papa first took him near it, and hung back when they came within reach of its trunk. "Why are you afraid of the elephant, Clarence?" asked his papa. "I'm afraid he will _trunk_ me," said Clarence. But he soon got over his fear, and was so busy feeding the elephant, that his papa had to coax him away. On their way home, Clarence's papa told the little boy some stories about elephants. Here is one of them:--