EDITOR'S WALLET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 91

EDITOR'S WALLET.

Breaking the Yews to Father.] "Tommy has been breaking- " '•The young imp; breakiner windows ■•gain " "Pe'B been breaking " "Yes, I know, that is the fourth window lie has broken in a. month? and which I've Bad to pay -for, but — — " "If. you will " 'Til stop -his little game. Before he -goes 'to bed to-night, without his supper.. I will- give him the beet tanning he has -«ver had in his life." "X you-—" "More than that, I'll stop his pocket Tnoiiey for a month." * . "If " '•"Don't you pkad for 1 him, Maiy. You women don't know how 1 ,io bring up boys. There's, nothing like' physical punishment for , taming them and bringing them to iJieir senses. Mothers are far. too lenient "with 'these young bulls, and it is high -time tihat fathers stepped in' and sternly •did their duty. "When I was a boy fathers would not stand any of this hanky-panky-ing on the part of their sons, and. as a result we grew uj> into a race of virile Empire-builders." '-"Tommy, has not' been breaking, •windows." - "Well, then, what on earth has he been ■breaking? Why don't you tell me?" "At 'school he has been breaking " "I know, breaking- benches, desks, blackboards; and so. forth. . Til break his neck when I lay my hands upon him." "I don't flunk you will, Bobert, after I've told you what he l>as been breaking." "Well, why don't you tell me?" "Be has been breaking all records -at ■school. He - has taken seven first prizes -at the last examinations, .and no pupil has •■ever taken more than five before." I