GIVEN AWAY.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4218, 21 January 1921, Page 1

GIVEN AWAY.

Father had consented to a half-hour's romp with the children after dinner, and when the time- was up. he was about ready to stop. Not so the. youngsters, who had worked themselves up to a pitch of excitement of which no child specialist would approve. So father possessed himself of the evening pajper and! tried to read it, while his tireless offspring swarmed about his easy chair,- pulling at his coat and mussing up his hair. Five-year-old Bobbi©, who had been very aggressive from the start, armed 'himself with a heavy hair-brush and climbed up on the back of the chair. In another moment father had received such a blow on tfhe head that brought tears to his eyes. That was too much. He grabbed the small offender, and had him already across his knee, when Bobbie began to cry. The tenderhearted parent relented at once. "Bobbie didn't mean to 'hurt daddy, did he?" he said, setting the sobbing child, right side up, upon his knee. "No-n-no!" said Bobbie. "Yea, he did, too!" broke in seven-year-old Sue, who was watching the eeene with interest. "He did, father, 'cause 'he had his teeth clenched when he did it!"