THEN FATHER SPURTED.
While mamma was out one evening, father undertook to cut little Freddie's hair. Barbers are so expensive in these days. Though he was making quite a good job of it, he was rather slow, and Freddie, who is only six and a bit, found the operation wearisome.
" Are yon nearly done, daddie?" he asked at length. '■ Very nearly sonny," replied his father. ' : I've only got the front to do now."
" I'm 'fraid," sighed the small boy sadly, " that the back will grow again while you're finishing the front.
ALTERNATE HAPPINESS.
A minister meeting a parishioner who had beei; recently married, and about whose domestic happiness terrible stories were rife, saluted him, and said: " Well, John, and how is all going on?" "Oh. happily enough!" returned John. "' I'm glad to' hear —you know there were rumours of rows or —"
" Rows!" :aid John. "Oh, yes, there are plenty of rows. Whenever the wife sees me she catches the first thing to hand, a diuli or anything, and fires it at me. If she hits me she's happy; if she doesn't, I am! Oh, we're getting on fine!"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17597, 9 October 1920, Page 5 (Supplement)
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188THEN FATHER SPURTED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17597, 9 October 1920, Page 5 (Supplement)
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