A PLUCKED EAGLE.
"Father," said Rollo, "the eagle is Hie emblem of ouv country, is it nob ?" Many boys of Rollo's age would have said "ain't it V but Hollo was carefully taught to speak correctly, and if ho had said "ain't it, ,, his father, who was a gentleman of the purest refinement and highest polish, would hare black-jaccd all the hide off his vulgar tack. Rollo knew how sensitive his father was to vulgarisms of .speech, having' debated the subject with him in several exciting sessions. Therefore, he said "Is it not?" "You bet: your melt," said Rollo's father. '' Bald eagle asked Kollo, after pausing ji moment to silently admire his father's classic language, and to wish that he, too, was a Greek scholar. "Yes," replied his father, looking up from his paper where ho had been reading how Bismarck returned our resolutions unopened, how South American governments opened the private mail of American consuls and how the American ilag was used as a dish rag oil the Congo and in Cuba. "Yes, my bod, ' black balled.' ;,
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4115, 29 September 1884, Page 4
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178A PLUCKED EAGLE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4115, 29 September 1884, Page 4
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