TROUBLESOME BOYS

Evening Star, Issue 20312, 22 October 1929, Page 13

TROUBLESOME BOYS

“THE TERRIBLE TWINS.” Not for the first time in their young lives the “terrible twins” at Birkenhead, England, Bernard and Janies O’Neal, aged eight years, recently went wandering from their home. They are the fair-haired, blue-eyed sons of Mr and Mrs O’Neal, of Bebington, and in earlier expeditions have been brought back from places as far distant ns Chester “ The terrible twins,” their elder sister jocularly calls them. The twins are alike as two pins, and have been known to sleep under haystacks, and in motor cars and Ses. Once a policeman found them _ y wrapped in a rug on the seat of a car and took them home, where their mothei locked them in a bedroom. Before* dawn next morning they had gone again, through tho window and clown a water spout. The stori is told that when the juvenile adventurers were born their mother tied a red ribbon round Jini s arm, but, thinking that she was showing him too much maternal favour, transferred it to the arm of Bernard. “ 1 believe they are still mixed, and that we arc calling them by their wrong names,” Mrs O’Neal declared. The twins fell how, in one of their wanderings, a black dog licked their hands and slept between them under a haystack aP night. When told by their rnothe* on their return that their absence had so mset the family that they could eat no dinner, Jim replied: “That’s nothing; me and Bern, often have no dinner when we are on tramp.”