A TALL TALE.
Mr. Shorter was painfully aware of the fact that he was gradually bocoming bald. Hut he cheered himself with the reflection that he had managed, with the aid of sundry locks brushed over from either side, to so far cover his bare pate as to hoodwink his friends. But last Sunday the climax was reached, when Johnnie, the four-year-old atom of Shorter, after gazing at. bis father for some time, suddenly surprised the, company by shouting, in childish glee : "Oh. papa, ain't you growing tall V" "Tall, my, dear," answered the a,r mazed Shorter. "What ever makes you think so ?" Then, pointing to the shiny paUi, just visible through the straggling locks, the cherub replied : "Why, papa, you've, growed right through your hair."
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Lake County Press, Issue 2138, 4 October 1906, Page 7
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126A TALL TALE. Lake County Press, Issue 2138, 4 October 1906, Page 7
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