PORRIDGE

NZ Truth, Issue 1105, 3 February 1927, Page 6

PORRIDGE

<'QH, you think your wife and ■ ■ three children can live on £2/5/- weekly?" demanded Lawyer McCarthy of Robert Wark McDonald during the ventilation of the family's domestic woes. "I do." "Well, tell the Court how it is. to be done," was counsel's next v thrust. I "By buying, according to the r wage," was the sage rejoinder. "I see," said counsel. "Well, just explain your idea of. how to keep a wife and three children on that sum." McDonald thought for a moment and then remarked m ail serious- . ness: "Ye can keep, a family of five for-r-r five shullin's a day." '/Not m New Zealand." "Yes, ye can do it." "Well," said counsel patiently, "tell ,us how it can be done." And then the real Scot came to the surface. • "Well, what's the price of por- . ridge here?" Scotty wanted to know. ' "Oh, don't ask me," hastily returned counsel. '■ The Court' laughed and ; there was no further reference to porridge.