OUR TRAWL NET.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 4

OUR TRAWL NET.

Tho young Scotchman never liked his mother-in-law, and this weighed on the mind of his wife, who was ill. Calling her husband to her bedside she 'said to him. "Sandy, lad, I'm verra ill and I think I'm gang to dee, and before I dee I want you to give me a promise." "I'll promise,!' replied Sandy. "What is it?" "Well, I ken that when I doe I'll have a funeral, and I want you to to ride up in front in a carriage wi' my mother." "Weel," sadly responded Sandy, "I'vo gied you my word, an' it's nae me that's gang back on that, but I'll tell you one thing, ye've spoilt the day for me." "When six-year-old Oliver, returned from his first day at Sunday sphool, his father asked him what they had told him ; whereupon Oliver related as best he could- the miracle of the loaves and fishes. His father suggested that the story was rather a hard one to believe, aud asked the boy what he thought about it, but Oliver evaded his .father's question. The next morning, however, the two were alone at breakfast. "Father," said the boy suddenly and solemnly; - "Well," answered his father. "I" don't believe that story about the loaves and fishes yesterday," continued the child in a quiet, confidential ..tone; but I didn't say anything. I didn't want to start an argument." A politician, who was makng a house-to-hoiise canvass during a re.cent election, came to a farm liouse, when he observed a young woman standing at the gate, and the candidate gracefully- lifted his hat and politely asked : — "No. doubt my, dear madam, your husband is at home?" ■ "Yes," responded the woman. "Might I have, the of seeing him?" inquired the politician. . - "He's down in the pasture a-bury-in' the dog,", was the reply from the ndiyidual at- the gate; . "I am very sorry indeed to learn of the death of the dog," came in sympathising tone from the candidate. "What killed him?" "He wore hisself out a-barkin' at the candidates," said the woman.