OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 4000, 29 November 1918, Page 4

OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS.

V He was a bright young office-boy,

and in the dim future saw himself sitting in the manager's chair. "Please, sir," he:said,, entering the room of his chief, after being sent to deliver a note, "the lady was out, and I could not deliver your message." "Go back immediately," said his employer, impatiently. "If the lady is still out, put the note through the- let-ter-box or Tinder the door. Get it into the house somehow; don't bring it back here.'Now be off!" Some little time passed, and then young hopeful returned with a satisfied smile and an air of conscious pride at having overcome all difficulties) and confident of rapid promotion. "Well?" jerked out his employer. "There was .no letter-box, sir, and the note wouldn't go under the door, so I tore it up into little bits and Khov*il thorn through the keyhole." Our hero was then shoved through y the' door—almost in bits— and never came back.