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Otago Witness, Issue 3275, 20 December 1916, Page 69

"What on earth aro you bellowing so hard for, Freddy?" "Daddy whipped mc/' "Well, what if ho did? You'vo boon whipped before, and tlio occasion doesn't call for fiuch heart-rending grief." "But he w-w-w-whipped me with a s-s-switch cut from the Christmas-t-fc-r-trco." Kindly old Jenkins had made his usual round of Christmas- Evo visits, and was taking a short cut homo when, half-way up a. dark street, he came upon a man lying flat upon the ground over a small grating, apparently tipsy. "Come, old fellow," he said, "get up and go home like a sensible chap." But tho old fellow shook himself free with an angry snort. "Git 'omo yerself, yer old fool, ho growled; "there'!? a wator pipo burst in our kitchen, an' I'm feeling for the main tap "