One day the high school principal came into my
office to talk with me about Alex, as we called him.
After considering his case very carefully, I requested
the principal to write his father, telling him that Alex



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was utterly failing in his work and asking the father's
hdp in trying to bring the boy to a better grade of
work. This was Friday afternoon. The principal sent
the letter that day.
Monday morning before school, Alex came in to see
me, looking as if he had lost his last friend. I asked him
what I coold do for him.
Scarcely waiting for me to finish my qaestion, he
began saying: "The principal has done it tww, he's
done it now, and he had no right to do it."

"Done whatt" I asked.
He replied : "He wrote dad that I was not doing my
work here at school, and when dad read the letter yes-
terday he got mad and said I'd got to leave home this
morning, get a job of work and make my own way. He's
canned me out, so I've got to get a job and go to work.
