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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 21, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 27.

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SHE MEANS NO.

The other day as I passed two little girls who were standing at the gate of one of their homes, I overheard a few words of their conversation.
"Oh! Mary, don't you believe that your mother will let you go?" asked one, anxiously.
"No, Alice, I know she will not, for she said so yesterday."
"But can't you coax her into it? I can almost always get my mother to let me do as I wish by teasing and coaxing until she is glad to get rid of me by permitting me to have my own way. Don't you suppose that you could tease your mother that way—tell her what a splendid time we will have, and that all the other girls' mothers are going to let them go."
"I would do so, Alice, if I thought it would do any good, but I know that it will not, for when mamma says no she means no."