CONSISTENT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 18

CONSISTENT.

‘You can't teach an old dog new tricks,’said old Judge Dewey, when his wife begged him to i emember to eat with his fork at her appioaehing dinner party ; ‘ I’ll try not to forget, my dear, but I wasn’t brought np to it.’ He did not remember at the dinner party. His knife went to his month a dozen times. Next day, when the family was dining alone, the old judge detected his youngest son, Frank, with his knife at his lips. ‘ Bating with your knife, sir? Leave the table ! thundered the old judge. ‘ You’ll eat bread and milk till further orders.’ ‘ Really, papa, I think you are too hard on poor Frankie, said Mrs Dewey, as the little fellow left the table. The faces of the elder boys and the grown up daughters showed that they agreed with their mother. ‘ He ate with his knife,’ growled the old man. ‘ So did you at the dinner,’ retorted Mrs Dewey severely. ‘ Don’t I know it !’ returned the judge. ‘ Don't I know it? I eat with my knife because I was biouglit up to it, but that boy wasn’t brought up to it. None of my children was brought up to it, and if I catch one < f ’em doing it, assure as I live, I’ll lock ’em up on spoon-victuals till they learn the use of-a fbrk !’