MOTHER'S WORK

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 24 January 1907, Page 38

MOTHER'S WORK

IMy mother gets me up, builds the fire, and gets^ .my breakfast, and sends me off,' said a bright youth. 'Then she gets my father- up," gets-' -. his- .breakfast, and sends him off. Then" she" give's -. the other children their breakfast and sends them to school. Then she and the baby have their breakfast.' 1 How "old is the baby ? ' asked the reporter. . - . ' Oh, she's 'most two, but she can talk and walk as well as any of us.' ' I get two dollars a week, and- father gets five dollars a day.' ' How much does~ your mother get ?'' ! With a bewildered look the boy said : ' Mother'! Why, she doesn 1 1 work for anybody. '

' I thought you said she worked for all of you.' "Oh, yes, for us she docs ; but there is no money in it.'