Managed to Get it Through.
" Alick," said a fond mother to a little four-year-old, "you must take the umbrdta to school with jou, or you will get wet. It rains hard." " I want the little one," he said, meaning the parasol, " No, my dear ; that is for dry weather. You must t«k« this, and go liko a good boy." AHck did as he was bidden, and gob to school comfortably. Ater t-chool hours it had stopped raining, and Alirk trudged home with the remnants of the umbrell* under bia arm. '• Oh ! Alick, what have you been doing with my uaihi'i lla ? " said tho mother, when she saw the sUtoit was iv. "You should have let me have the little one!" said he. "This was such a great one, it took >ix of us to pull ib through the doar ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2171, 3 October 1895, Page 49
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