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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1792, 30 September 1874, Page 3

■f A Scotch laddie delivering milt tor a dairy in the suburbs of London, was stopped the other day in Lis round of call by two detective officers, who asked him for who he delivered the milk. The boy, on telling them, wasasked if his employers put anything in the milk. " Gh\ ay," wat the innocent answer j.ind the officers, thinking they had a clear case, each offered the boy a penny if he would tell them what he put io it. " Ah," said the boy with a grin, " ye wadna gie's the penny though I tell ye!" "Oh yes, we will/ returned the officers. " G-ies fc then," said the little fellow, doubtfully. The pence wertj then handed oyer, with the question," Now, what do you put jn the milk ?" " Now," said the boy, iwiin a cunning look, "I pit the measure m every time I take ony oot;" •