Kept His Word.
A certain schoolboy Hamed Michael, in a remote part of the country, boasted constantly that the master was afraid to flog him. Why? Oh, because his father had said that if a hand was ever laid upon the l>oy there would be trouble. But one day Michael misbehaved himself, and th* flogging was not long in coming. The boy went home indescribably enraged. He sought out his father. “Father,” he said, “didn't you say that if the schoolmaster ever caned me there would be trouble?” “I did,” the father answered. “Well, I was caned to-day, and only for throwing paper pellets about Hie room.” The father frowned. “I never fail, my son, to keep a promise,” he said. “There is going to be trouble. Fetch -the strap.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue VIII, 20 August 1904, Page 60
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130Kept His Word. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue VIII, 20 August 1904, Page 60
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