FATHER'S REVENGE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 2

FATHER'S REVENGE.

"Here is a telegram from papa," says the eloping bride. "He says it is for us to come right home and live with him and mamma." "I didn't thing he would be so vindictive as all that," sighs the eloping bridegroom. HE SPOKE TOO SOON. Tommy and his father were having a quiet stroll through the public park. "Papa," asked the son, "who" owns this park?" "Wo do, my son. As two units of a great general public we have a right to consider ourselves the owners. It is a glorious feature of our form of Government that the people are absolute. All property rights are based on their consent. All titles thus come from them, and will finallly revert to them. The will of the people is the supreme law. Here, in this public park, we a right to come and rest. We are on our own soil. To stroll at will—" "Hullo, there!" broke in a harsh voice. "Get off the grass, will yer, or I'll run yer in!" Come oif the grass, Tommy," said the father, meekly; "it is the peo~ pie's park, but the grass belongs to the Corporation."