BABIES BEFORE BULL PUPS.

NZ Truth, Issue 583, 19 August 1916, Page 12

BABIES BEFORE BULL PUPS.

She was a Wellington lady with a family of fine children and she let apartments on tho American "rooming" plan. The young lady applicant was made up like a French doll and eyed the sign, "No dogs allowed m these rooms" with a hydrophobic glance. "Had she a nalce, leetle room that would suit her?" She had. "Would the lady look at No. 9?" Yes, she thought It was lovelay and such a naice view. .; She would pay a week m advance. , Just as the French doll brought out her ! doll-like purse the janitress noticed • something stir In the kit-bag. "What (have you got there, miss?" she asked I suspiciously. "Oh, it's only Pompay, ! he's such a dear little angel and he's 'reahlly no " "Look here, miss," said Mrs. Rooms. "I would rather see a man sleeping In one of my rooms with a bull elephant than I'd see a woman on my premises with a dog. Take your Pompay out of this and get him board at the pork butcher's. This is no dog house." "Ow, thenk you for your advice. I may be coming back to Wellington next year and I'll take good care that I don't recommend my friends to come to your place. I may have another line with me ,(ahe was a canvasser) when I comb and you'll miss a good .customer, madam." All right" said Mrs. Rooms, "and if you bring it In a perambulator you may stop as long as you like to pay rent; but, m the meantime I want you to understand that, this is a house and not an agricultural show and we keep no dog-ken-nels on the premises." Exit the French doll muttering indistinct anathemas anent the "incomparable Impudence of vulgar people with a house full of brats and no convenience for pet dogs on their premises."