AN AMBIGUOUS FAMILY.
■'■-. Some;time;ago San Francisco passed.a,new law: requiring .voters: tojtell, -in addition to 'the usual: questions,' whether ..they wcr-o 'mar-: riedj or mot, &hd if so how many children "they..-had<:-'-/'.'-'.":''':- ! . : :;.- : : ; '.'-.;." '; '.■'..:;',',' - >':' f,',A,blufi,- ruddy-faced /individual' .presented himself ior- registry, one of those, fellows to : is: a'foreign conception';' ; ';:: '■-, "Your.name," asked the officer at..the poll. ■ ' '-'John Jenkins:" ."-'•' ; ; ;?Agq ?»■.-,■:...>; : .::- -.. ■::■'.;" fv-r '■■::-'■''.:'■.: ;'■ .'."Thirty-three." :,'So-.it went until the fatal question was sprung. .;- "•■':;;..-,'.''"..'. .\.: ; /:'.'•/■; ','•;• "Married?'.' ~'v/;'' ,;■'■"'.■.'■' '.The ruddy-faced "individual: clearedl - his throat, and went into a deep study. Then, recovering himself, he blutfly ariswored, ■.Sure", :■.-;.: x\ ■■ .-.-.- ~-;'■•.■.. ■': •-.. -, : -\ :•:■:.;;-■ :■. ' ', "Got any '. - "■' ";'.'-. '■-'■/-. '•':', -Again he:relapsed ihto'a-brown study. The ■registration officials plainly began to grow suspicious.. "Yep,, sis,"' ho, blurted out: on the spun of the "moment. :.-. ',:'-," "- .'-.-. . "AVhat are they?'! came'.back" quick as a flash. ; >-,-;. ;: . '.-.'-..- : ,'■-■'-'.• -:.-■'..'.-■ , : ..'.-. 1 . : ■-' repeater,. Imaking an effort to, bo on ihis guard, -glibly began .-"Two boys", iwo girls,, and—-'.:..- •■;-.;. '.'■': He stopped: short, There was-nothing else to.say./ The bluff went out of him -like-tho starch outof an. August, collar. He had convicted himself of lying, arid he'beat a. hasty retreat, glad-:to' escape arrest.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 3
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170AN AMBIGUOUS FAMILY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 3
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