A PAYING GAME.
Little Billy had been in the wars. He had striking evidence of\th© fact by his dark optic. "Won't I give it to J&cky Jinks for this!"
' 'No, no," remonstrated his mother; "you should always return good tor evil. Now, when you go to school again, give him this jam tart, and say, 'Jacky, you blackened my eye yesterday, but' mother says I've to return good for evil, so here's «a nice jam tart for you.' " Billy promised to obey his mother's instructions, -but he returned home next diiy with his face more disfigured than ever. "Mummy, mummy!" be ejaculated between his sobs, "Jacky's been and blocked my other eye, and 'c says will you please put> more jam in the next tart?"
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 11, 13 January 1912, Page 6
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125A PAYING GAME. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 11, 13 January 1912, Page 6
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