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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 172, 29 April 1874, Page 3

Mrs Buckley directed her sen Samuel, a iad o£ fourteen years, to take a tom at the chum. How ns Samuel had set his heart on going a-fishing at that very time, he got his bock up”" and flatly refused to agitate the cream. The curvature was promptly taken out of his spina by a slipper, and with “ tears in his eyes” he wont ou duty with the dasher. In about an hour, and during the brief absence of his mother, his ere tell upon a plate of fly poison, and a bright, smart thought struck him. Just before Mrs B. came in, Samuel lifted the fetal platter to hie face, and as she entered he put the poison from his lips with the dramatic exclamation, "There, mother, I guess you won’t lick me no morel" Now what did the Spartan dame do ? Did she shriek for a doctor and fall into hysterics f Not much. She simply shook Samuel by the nape of the neck, lifted him deftly into the pantry, beat the white of si* eggs together, and told him to engulf the same iastanter; ho refusing, she called the hired girl, and in a twinkling Sam found himself outside the albumen. Then Mrs B, began preparing a mustard emetic. Seeing this, Sara’s pluck dissolved, and he commenced begging, saying, "I was only toyin’ to skeer ye." Bat the stern mother was not to be softened, and Samuel bad to swallow the mustard. He was then forced <.O take a dose of painkiller, and had his back rubbed with the “ Vigour of Info," and his stomach with the “ Oil of Gladness.” Then he vomited up everything bat his boots and socks. This being over he took seven Ayer’s pills, two spoonsful of castor oil, a teaepoonful of salts, and a blue pill* That boy will not try to “ skeer" bis mother again this season. —American paper*

A statistician has discovered that in this colony we have a parson to crero 1,000 persons, and a medical practitioner to about every 3,000, from which ho argues that we area very godly people, seeing that so much greater provision is made for the care of our souls than there is for our bodies.