TIME FOR ACTION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1060, 30 June 1910, Page 23

TIME FOR ACTION.

In a Scottish village a small boy raised a hubbub in the parish church one Sunday. His mother bought a sheep’s head, and put it on to boil, leaving him to watch it while she went to : church close by. The minister had reached his “fifthly,” when the boy thrust his head in at the door and whispered, “Mither!” The good woman recognised her son instantly, and began to make signs for him to go away. “Mither!” again came the whisper—this time a little louder than before. The mother shook her finger at the boy, and her head too. But it did not work satisfactorily. The boy was in earnest. Raising his voice he shouted, “Mither, ye needna wink an’ blink at me, but ye’d better come awa’ hame at once, for the sheep’s head’s buttin’ a’ the dumplins out o’ the kail pat.”