HARRY WAITED.
It is a good idea to teach the small boy that he should not talk while his father is reading, but there is a case in which the prohibition was carried to a disastrous extent. Harry had been lectured so many times about his inopportune talking that he usually asked permission to speak. He saw _ one evening that his fathcwas “ buried in the newspaper,” so he asked his mother if he might say something. His mother told him that his father must not be disturbed. Harry mildly insisted, however, asking leave to say “ say just one wori,” but the mother was firm, and would not give the necessary permission. Finally the father laid down his paper and said: “Now, Harry, what is it that you wish to say?” “ Oh, nothing,” answered the boy, “ except that the bathtub is running over.” And then there was a hurrying and a scurrying, and all that sort of thing.
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Evening Star, Issue 14054, 8 May 1909, Page 4
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