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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 2

A DOMESTIC APPRENTICE. " Father, what does 'aiyj^renticing 1 fnean ':" asked a boy, in (west of informs don. Father : "It moans the binding of oni person to another by agreement, and thai dwp person bo "bound has 1o leach the other all he can of his trade or profession. whiM the other has to watoii anr' learn how things are done, and to mak< himself useful in every way." Tommy : " lih*n I suppose you're apprenticed to mother, aren't yon, dad?" Here the old man rushed off to catch Ins train without a word. A clergyman was on board a steamer whieh was caught in a severe gale. The rolling was constant, and seemed to get worse as time went on. At last the good man got thoroughly frightened. He believed they were destined for a watery grave, so he went to tilie captain, and asked him if he might have prayers. Tfcc captain took him by tilie arm and led him to tfhe forecastle, where the tare fvere pinging and swearing"There!" said he. ''When you hear the men swearing you may know there is no danger." The clergyman went back feeling better, but. still the storm diicreased, and his alarm also. Disconsolate, he managed to stagger to the ngain, wihere lie beard the sailors swearing as liard as ever. " Mary," he said to his sympathetic wife as he crawled back to his berth—- " \larv, thank Heaven ! they're swearing yet !"'