BOWLED OUT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1774, 12 June 1913, Page 4

BOWLED OUT.

heard at the pantomime. "Is he wcally a weal pussy, ■ mummer P". ' said the doubting five-year-older, between chocolates, to her mama at tho matineo performance of "Puss-in-Boots." . "Yes, darling, isn't ho a bequty?" 6aid mother, helping- J. C. Williamson to sust' tain ail illusion. / "Ho is tho biggcrost one I've , bigger*]! our Tom Pass, ain't he, rpuin?" ' "Much bigger." "Why is lio to bigger*n our Tom Puss—i ■ does ho eat more wats (rats) ?". "Ever so many more—but look at tho ! pretty girls—aren't they lovely?" said tho mother, desirous of turning, tho subject of conversation. "Tho cat's biggerer than the girls, ain't he, mum? Docs ho eat girls, too?" "No, don't be absurd." "Look, tho boo'ful lady's got his boots'' for him!" "Yes, dear, but you miist not make a noise," whispered tho thoughtful parent. "'E's onnin' he's boots. . . „ He's talkin', mummer, I hoard him 'say soi ... It ain't a weal oat, is it, mummer —a weally weal cat?" ,

"Yes—-no—oh, it's a man dressed up 89 a cat. Now are you satisfied?" By the quiet which invested tho next' five minutes one judgod that tho prying mind was busy digesting cither tho frailty of pantomimes or his mother's sense of , truth.