A SAD MISTAKE.
"My word !" said the proud father, looking with admiring eyes at his baby sou and heir. "He's a bumper! He must bo weighed. Where are the scales?"
The scales were soon forthcoming, and he immediately set the baby on them.
"I'll try eight pounds," he thought, sliding the weight along the bar to that figure, "Won't do," he said. "More." And slid the weight along several notches. "By Jove!" he cried. "He weighs more than ten pounds— eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen— good gracious ! —fifteen, sixteen!" he counted. He could go no further, so he set the baby down and fairly ga«ped. "Heavens!" he murmured, "he's the heaviest baby in the country! The scales won't register any higher!" And he rushed off to tell his wife.
"What scales did you weigh him on?" asked the young mother, with some anxiety. "On the old kitchen scales."
"The figures on those are only ounces," she said quietly. "Bring poor baby to me immediately!" she added m a freezing tone.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8942, 17 December 1907, Page 6
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169A SAD MISTAKE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8942, 17 December 1907, Page 6
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