THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER CUTS HIS HAIR.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1519, 12 February 1886, Page 4

THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER CUTS HIS HAIR.

You can always tell a boy whose mother cuts his hair by the way he stops in the street and wriggles his shoulders. When a fond mother has to cut her boy's hair, she is careful to guard against any annoyance and mess by laying a sheet on the carpet. It has never yet occurred to her to ?»et him over a bare floor and put the sheet around his neck. Tien she draws the front hair over his eyes, and leaves it there while she cuts that which is at the back.

The hair which lies over his eyes appears to be surcharged with electric needles, and that which is silently dropping iown under his collar band appear* to be on fire. She has unconsciously continued to push his head forward until his nose presses his breast, and is too busily engaged to notice the snuffling sound that is becoming alarmingly frequent In the n.eantime he is seized with an irresistible desire to blow his nose, but recollects that his handkerchief is in the other room.

Then a fly lights on his nose, and docs it eo unexpectedly that he involuntarily dodgep, and catches the points of the shears in his left ear. At this he commences to cry and wish he was a man. But his mother doesn't notice him. She merely hits him on the other ear to inspire him with confidence, and goes on with the work. When she is through, she holds his jacket collar from his neck, and with her mouth blows the short bits of hair down his back. He calls her attention to this fact, but she looks for a new place on his head and hits him there, and asks him why he didn't use his handkerchief. Then he takes his awfully disfigured head to the mirror and looks at it, and, young as he is, shudders as he thinks of what the boys in the street will say.