WISE PRECAUTION.
"Now, Harry, go to Smith the grocer's, and get a pound of the best treacle," said his mother, and she banded the young hopeful a couple of good-sized jugs. When the boy had gone the vicar's wife said:— "You didn't tell him to get anything in the other jug. Is ihe going to leave it at the shop?" "No, ma'am; he's going to bring it back here again." "But why send two jugs; to get a pound of treacle?" . "Well, you see, it's this way. If he has a jug in each_ hand he can't go dipping his finger into the treacle as he comes along."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1913, Page 6
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108WISE PRECAUTION. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1913, Page 6
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