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Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 7

Little Leslie had been sent to the grocer’s to make some purchases for his mother. The shop, was crowded out wu.i customers when the boy arrived, hut , managed to wriggle J way ' up to the countermand said in a loud voice: "Please serve me quick; it’s for dad’s dinner!” The man behind the counter knew the lad by sight. “What do yoy want, son?” he asked. “Two bars of and a jacket of washingpowder answered little Leslie, who was aoxtou* to be on his way. True to Hli Trade.—The young plumber had propowd to the girl and had been accepted Several hours later they pdrted and he went home. At 3 o’clock in the morning a loud ringing of the front door bell of the girl’s house was heard Her father, roused from 'lumlfcr, wont to a window, and, sticking out hi# head, ’nquired who was there. “ It’* John,” said a voice from below. “I asked Ague# to marry me, •and she said she. would, but I forgot to kiss hex,”