GOT THE AFTERNOON OFF.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 10

GOT THE AFTERNOON OFF.

C Jenkins, an office boy in a city /office, approached his boss one morni mg last week. "If you please, sir.-'' "Well. Jenkins '» "My grandmother, sir." "Aha, your grandmother! Go on Jenkins!" "JJy grandmother and my mother—'» What? And your mother, too? Both very ill—eh?'' "No, sir. My grandmother and my mother are gain' to the cricket match after dinner, and they want me to stay at home and mind my little brother." Jenkins,*1 got the afternoon off.