TERRIBLE INFANT.
r l lit'. guests ft o Christmas parly, as ji compliment to the host anil hostess, waxed clamorous to see the four-year-old son and licir. The voting gentleman, having boon taken out ol' bed and carried into ilio festive arena, stared sleepily at the ladies and gentlemen, and then, fixing his eyes 011 the remainder of the pudding, essayed to speak. Thu youngster was famed fov smartness. and the company vas all attention. The darling lisped: "I know where that pudding was biled, and 1 know what it A\as biled in. ' " Hush, my dear." gasped the terrified mamma, anxious to avert tho threatened disclosures. " No; T won't hush," exclaimed tho irrepressible. "Ma tied it up in pa's old shirt and biled it in tho copper where lie. biles the lumps of gee-gees for the bow-wows in the kennel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)
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140TERRIBLE INFANT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)
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