ARTFUL BOY.
"Papa." said Oeorgie, ''it worries me awful to think how much trouble I give mamma." "She hasn't complained." "No. she's very p-itieut. But she often seuds me to the shop for things, and they are a good way off, and I know she gets cross waiting when she's in a hurry." "Not often. I fancy." "Oh. she's nearly always in a hurry. She gets everything all ready for baking, and finds at the last minute she hasn't any veasl. or she gets a pudding all mixed, and finds she hasn't any nutmeg or something: and then she's in an awful stew, 'cause the oven is all ready, and maybe visitors are coming, and I can't run a very long distance, you know: and I feel awful sorry for jK>or mamma." "Humph! Well, what can we do about if/" "I w;is iWinking you might get ine a bicycle. ________^_
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2169, 13 August 1897, Page 3
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149ARTFUL BOY. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2169, 13 August 1897, Page 3
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