"It has really got to be a habit with you to call upon somebody else, whenever you are told to do a thing.

We have all noticed it, a hundred times, and you alone seem to be blind to it.

In a year or two, when you are old enough to leave school, and go to a place, what do you suppose you will be good for, if you keep on in this way?
Why, the man who should take you into his employ, would have to hire another boy on purpose to wait upon you." "It is just as mother says, Oscar," added his eldest sister, Alice.
"It was only this morning that Bridget was scolding, because you wanted to be waited upon so much.

She says you make her more trouble than all the rest of us together." Oscar could not deny these charges, and so he said nothing, but appeared to be reading his newspaper very intently.

Mr.Preston came in soon after, and the family sat down to tea.
"Oscar," said Mr.Preston, "next week is vacation, is it not ?" "Yes, sir," replied Oscar.
"Well, I shall want you in the store a part of the time," continued his father.