A Cute Litte Customer who almost Paralysed a Barber.

Otago Witness, Volume 26, Issue 1705, 26 July 1884, Page 27

A Cute Litte Customer who almost Paralysed a Barber.

Ouj friend Wilpins has a little five-year-old daughter by whom has been vanquished one of Lowell's most accomplished linguists — otherwise one of Lowell's most skilled tonsorial artists. She was taken down to have her hair cut the other day and opened fire upon the officiating barber with his own ammunition in the manner following, to wit :— " Oo pitty well to day ?" "Yes, little girl, I'm pretty well." " Oo mamma well ?" " Yes, my mother's pretty well," (Snip.) "Oo, papa well?" " Yes, pretty well." (Snip, snip.) Oo dress yourself ?'' 41 Oh, yes, I dress myself." (Snip.) " Oo wash oo own face?" "Eh? Oh, yes, of course." (Gouge.) Oo fix oo own hair." •'Yes, yes." (Snip, snip, snip— rapidly.) Oo sew Sundays.?' 1 " Why, no, I don't sew Sundays." (Pause.) Oo sit right down and read ?" " Yes. ' (Snip, snip, snip— nervously.) Can oo read ?'' 1 ' Yes. " (Nearly takes off one ear. ) " Oo been to school ?" "Well, yes— some time ago." (Snip, snip.) " Is oo a man ?" " Y-ees." (Thinks Borne of infanticide.) " Does oo mamma let oo Binoke ?" " Sometimes." (Tries to control a cowlick.) "When?" ' -r " When she doesn't know it." (Snip.) " When don't she know it ?" " When she isn't looking." (Tries to smile.) " Is oo all through ?" "Yes ; all through." (Relieved.) "Goo- by! I'll come again sometime— won't I ?" "Do!" (Sinks exhausted.) And the little bud of promise toddled out of the door without the baffled barber having asked her if she wouldn't have a sea-foam or a bottle of hair tonic. —Jiowell Citi?en,