AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT.
A well-known writer visited a gaol to take, notes for an article on prison life. On returning home he described what he had seen, and his description made a deep impression on the mind of his little daughter. .
A week later the writer, and his little girl _ were in a train which stopped at a station near a gloomy building. "What place is that?" asked a passenger.
"The county gaol," another answered promptly. . ■ ' '
Whereupon Mary embarrassed her fattier and aroused the suspicion of the other passengers by asking in ■a- loud, shrill voice, "Is that the gaol you were in, father?"
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 21
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104AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT. Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 21
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