The inventive tendency of the juven- | ile mind is indeed a wondrous thing, as | a Napier housewife recently found to , her cost (says an exchange). The lady in | question had recently purchased a wire , „auze meat cover, of the type generally employed by housewives to protect Sunday's joint from the attacks of the blowfly. Wishing to use this the other day, she was unable to locate it, and on inquiry of her two small sons, elicited the information that they bad purloined the article in question for use as a lobster pot in one of their various fishing expeditions. What happened, to the '•over is still in doubt, hut it -is need- : less' to snv that paterfamilias and a slipper plaved no small part in the drama I that followed the confession.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 17
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132Untitled Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 17
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