ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 278

ODDS AND ENDS

The story is told of a kind-hearted little girl from the city who saw, one evening, a mother lien about to gather her brood of chicks under her wings, and who rushed up to the hen and shouted: ' Shoo, you ugly thing ! How dare you sit down on those beautiful little birds?' Hostess (at party) : ' And does your mother allow you to have two pieces of pie when you are at home, Willie?' Willie • (who has asked for the second piece) : ' No, ma'am.' Hostess : ' Well, do you think she would like you to have two pieces here?' Willie (confidently): c Oh! she wouldn't care. This isn't her pie, you know.' ' I hope you were a good little boy while at your aunt's and didn't tell any stories,' said his mother. ' Only the one you put me up to, ma,' replied her young hopeful. 'Why, what do you mean, child?' ' When she asked me if I'd like to have a second piece of cake I said " No, thank you, I've had enough." '