A TALL TALE.
Mr. Shorter was painfully# aware of the fact that he was gradually becoming bald. But ho cheered himself with the reflection that he had managed, with the aid of sundry locks brushed over from either side, to so far cover his bare pate as to hoodwink his friends. But last Sunday the climax was reached, when Johnnie, the four-year-old atom of Shorter, after for some time, suddet company by shouting, in childish glee : “Oh, papa, ain’t vou growing tall ?" “Tall, my, dca mazed Shorter. “What ever makes you think so ?" Then, pointing to the shiny ptue, just visible through the strug:;ling locks, tho cherub replied : “Why, papa, you’ve glowed right through your hair."
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 2
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116A TALL TALE. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 2
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