EAGER FOR HIS RIGHTS.
As little Freddie had reached the mature age of three, and was about to discard petticoats for manly raiment in the form. of knickerbockers, his mother determined to make the occasion a memorable one.
The breakfast-table was laden with good fare as the newly-breeched infant was led into the room. "Ah," cried the proud mother, "now you are a little man!"
The fledgling was in ecstasies. Displaying his garments to their full advantage, he edged closer to his mother, and whispered: "Mother, can IJcall pa Bill now?"
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 1 October 1913, Page 3
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91EAGER FOR HIS RIGHTS. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 1 October 1913, Page 3
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