Had Made Progress.
A well-known and wealthy menagerie proprietor had a son who wanted brightening up, and so it was arranged that his smart secretary should take the young man on a trip to Africa and Australia. "Try to knock come sense into him," was the old man's parting injunction. "And pick up something new and good for the show," he added.
In the latter sense- the trip was not a success, and the secretary returned emptyhanded, leaving his charge, who had not spent all the allowance made by his father. A few days after the secretary's homecoming he found the old man studying & cablegram witb evident satisfaction. He handed it to the .secretary, saying: — "That boy is not such a fool as wo thought. Look here ; he has found a new specimen of the baboon, and .says he can secure it for me for a hundred pounds if I send the cash at once, and that I'll do right away. The very thing, I wanted." On the following day the secretary found tho old man studying another despatch. "Well, governor, what'e ux»l"
"Oh, I say," -said the sire sadly, "thai, boy of mine has brightened up a bit. Lool : at this." The cablegram read: '"'Money receivedbaboon dead."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 86
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208Had Made Progress. Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 86
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