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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 3

A Young George Washington.— "Jimmy," said a gentle old lady sadly to a voimg imp who lay with a broken leg in tho hospital, "the nurses tell me thai you have been a very naughty boy." ''Ye3, missus," acknowledged Jimmy, his sunburnt face and touHed head half hidden in the pillow. "But wly?" came tin? gentle query. "Can't 'elp it missus," shamefully whispered Jim. " Now look here," said tho okl lady as she rose, " I shall be at the hospital again next week, and I want you to promise mo to bo a good boy till then, and if so you shall have a whole shilling." Jim fervently promised, but, alas, all his old mischief reasserted itself, and he was sadly 111 disgrace when the old lady again visited the ward. " Well, little man," she mildly, "I'm not going to a sic the nurses if you have been a good boy. Tell me yourself. Now, do you deserve that shilling I promised you?" Slowly Jim raised his great brown eyes to her face, and then lowered them again. "Gimme a penny!" ho said in a low voice