HOW HE COULD PAY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1905, Page 7

HOW HE COULD PAY.

"Father," said a little boy, aged seven, "will you lend me sixpence? I want to go to the Band of Hope tea." • "My eon," said the father, laughing, '"ii I lend you sixpence, how can you pay me back?" "Father," said the little boy, "you can give me a half-penny every Sunday, foi twelve Sundays, and I will give them ! back to you again." i r A hawker of olothes-props was toiling along the lane to M , when a police officer accosted -him;. ' "Here, my man, you go with me; you are hawking without a license." The man appeared confused, but said: "If Aw do, tha'll have to carry the props." The policeman, wanting a case, shouldered the props, and marched on to H— — , ; where he stated the case before his chief, 1 who, turning to the hawker, said: i "Have you a license?" I "Yes, Sir; it's here." ' . "Then why did you not show this be* fore?" "He never ax't me, an,' Aw thout he wanted a job!" "I cannot make up my./ mind what to give Sadie for Christmas." : < i "What ! - Has she everything she wants?" ,' ' ' : " ■• ■ '■-• ' .' • .'■: '. ■' ' ■. "Well, she has everything she doesn't want.' ■■■_:■ ' .' '. ■....•" "' 'Un^e" Got Them.— Checkly: "Did you hang up your stocking on Christmas Eve?" Harduppe: "No, not quite so bad as that; but I hung up my overcoat and watch."