" HELL SPEAK THE TRUTH."

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9366, 16 March 1896, Page 4

" HELL SPEAK THE TRUTH."

One of Cecil R.'a weaknesses as a boy was a fondness for jam. Mrs Bankes tells bow on one occasion she made some aud put the pots as high up as ever she could. But evidently to little purpose. " Blest if two of them wasn't clean empty before you could turn rouud. ' Cecil,' I says, very grave, 'did you eat that jam _' 'Yes,' be says, 'yes, Susan, and some I spilt, and Herbert and mc wiped it up when you were out. I am sorry it's gone .r eaten, Susan. It was very good. Make some more,' he says, superior, and goes off whistlin'. ' What are you to do witn tv boy like that V I asks his mother. 'Let him alone, Susan; it's the best,' she says, 'as long as he speaks the truth.' Bat how be reached them shelves is a mystery." The last time his old nurse saw Mr Rhodes was some years ago, when he was vioiting her master and mistress "ddwn'lffley way. " And when are yon going to settle yerself, sir, and give up them African things and get m-rried? ,s "Marriage," he says, " marriage is a ,more difficult game than politics, Bankes." "Mr Rhodes will be back almost immediately. I wonder what will happen then? You see, Mrs Bankes, there's sure to be a fuss." "Well, he'll speak the truth, and they'd best let him alone-—you tell 'em."