BREAKING IT GENTLY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 120, 18 May 1912, Page 6

BREAKING IT GENTLY.

j A lady who had recently moved to i tlie suburbs was very fond of her first brood of chickens. Going out one afternoon she left the household in i charge of her'eight-year-old boy. BeI fore her return a thunder storm came < on. The youngster forgot the chicks •luring th^ stoim, and was dismayed artei it- passed to find that half of

them had been drowned. Though, fearing the. wrath to come, he thoughtbest to make a clean breast of. thocalamity, rather than leave it to bodiscovered. "Mamma," ho said, contritely, when his mother had returned— "mamma, six of the chickens are dead." ••'Dead!" cried the mother. • Six! • How'did'they' die?" The boy saw his chance. "I think—l think they died haPPy>" he said.