A Lad of Principle.
Meeting a newsboy whose "face was scarred with scratches like a map of some great railway .centre, a benevolent old gentleman asked the youngster what «fie matter wae. "Feller spoke disrespectful of my ,-ister; said he'd bet she was cross-eyed ; and I sailed 'n." *' Is your bistrr "cros'-oyed? " asked .he of the kiiul lv^urt. "Ain't iSftfo no lister." was the reply. "It y-as i'i^"*principle of the thing that I got lickeri '«>i\" *
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Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 91
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76A Lad of Principle. Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 91
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