WILLY AND THE TISEMENT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 355

WILLY AND THE TISEMENT.

There was a little boy named Willy, who lived with his father and mother and his brother Tom. Willy was very proud of Tom, and considered him a very big boy indeed, for he was eleven years old, while Willy was only three. They lived in Cleve, in a very wide street, with nice green grass about the house, and a barn at the back. One day Tom came home from school and exclaimed : ‘ Mamma, at the grocery store they give a cup of cocoa to anyone who comes along. We all stopped there, and they gave us each a cup. It was jolly. It’s an advertisement.’ (That is how Tom pronounced it, but I think advertisement is better.) Willy was playing with his blocks, and no one thought that he was paying any attention to what was said. That afternoon he was missing. * Willy ! Willy !’ called mamma and the nurse upstairs and down, in the house and out, but no Willy answered. Mamma was quite distracted, and was just tying on her bonnet wrong side foremost to hurry to papa’s office, when whom should they see coming up the street but Willy ! Mamma flew to meet him. ‘ My child, where have you been ?’ ‘ I went after the ’tisement.’ ‘ The what, Willy ?' * The ’tisement. I went to the shop and asked for a cup o’ cocoa. It was velly good, mamma, and it doesn’t cost nothin’ neither.’