His Mistake.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 2

His Mistake.

One bright sunny morning a small boy was busily spinning his top outside a suburban house. Along the road came a hook-can-vasser. “Your mother in ?’’ he asked the small boy, as he opened the gardengate. “Yes, sir !’’ said the small boy, spinning his top again. The canvasser knocked and knocked, again at the door of the house, but could get no reply. Coming out of the gate, he said again to the small hoy : “I thought you said your mother was in ?” “So she is, sir.’’ “But I’ve knocked several times, and can’t get any reply.” “Perhaps not,” said the boy, winding the string carefully round his top. ‘T didn’t say she lived there.”