"Does It Pay?"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

"Does It Pay?"

(Bv David Stanton, Npatea F. 0., Haurakl riains.) cc No, Bobby, you cannot go," said Mrs. Brown to her son. "You mightget hurt," Bobby saw his mother -would not change her mind, and strode out of the hou*c. Hit? friends had asked him to go to the roller-skate rink, and just because that silly boy next door had sprained his wrist his' mother had told Bob's, Bob couldn't go. Ho was in a very sulky mood all the morning, and none of his friends wanted to play with him, which made him all the more angry. After dinner was over Mrs. Brown said to Bobby, "Your father and I arc called down town, bo look after the house, won't you?" Giving him a tart, she left. After sitting by the window eating his tart, Bob saw his friends coining down the road with their skates hanging on their arms, and oil hearing lie wasn't coming they walked on, ehatting happily. But after thinking a while Bobby decided lie would go. He still had some the 5/ left that Unelc Bert gave him for his birthday, and it wa*» only Gd to go in, and, collecting his skates, lie set oir. As lie passed the house next door he saw the boy with his arm in a sling, and as he looked the boy turned to him and asked if he was going skating. Hearing he was, the boy said, "You'll be more surious when you leave than you are now." But Bobby pretended not to hear. Arriving at the rink, he adjusted his skates, but sat watching others skate for a while, and seeing it looked very easy, he decided to try. But as he stepped out his feet seemed to riso ill tin? air and he was sitting down in a very silly way quite a lot of people laughing at him. Angrily clambering up, he grasped the rails with both hands and gave himself a push. Bobby did not know what happened that time, for everything went black. When ho opened his eyes ho found ho was in his own bed, and kind Dr. Beeds was "wetting his face with some niec-smclling lotion, and his mother was fanning him with a newspaper. Smiling faintly, his mother led the doctor out of the room, and came back to Bobby. "I am very sorry you had to have a lesson like this, Bobby/' she said, "but 1 hope you will be wiser next time," and she closed the door. Lying by himself, Bobby thought it wasn't worth while being disobedient and resolved to be better in future.

What mischief is in those bright c\>es? This drawing by Sunbeam M. Coodes has almost a professional touch about it. Wed lil(c to meet Scotty.