NOT VERY OBSERVANT.
A boy about twelve years old called lat a New York police station to give notice that his father was missiDg. After getting name, street, and number, the sergeant said: "Now give me a description of your father." "He is a man," said the boy. "I don't doubt that i but I want his age, height, colour of ba'r, and so on." The boy was struck, and, after the sergetsnt bed vainly pumped him, be said : "It is curious that a boy of your age can't describe his own father." "He's my stepfather," replied - the lad. "I know he's been hanging about our house for two or throe years, but I never thought to look at him much. You can put him down as a red-headed man, and I'll get mother to writa out the rest.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 3 July 1895, Page 3
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139NOT VERY OBSERVANT. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 3 July 1895, Page 3
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