VERY SUDDEN

New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1913, Page 62

VERY SUDDEN

A young lad presented himself at a butcher's shop, and when the burly proprietor appeared gave a small order . , ' You don't buy so much meat now as you did/ remarked the butcher. ' No/ responded the lad, ' it's because father has become a vegetarian.' 'Well,.my lad/ came the grave retort, 'you give your father 1 warning from me that, as a rule, vegetarians come to a violent and untimely end. Take a bullock—'e's a vegetarian. Wot's the result? Why, 'e's cut off sudden— his wery prime!'