The Small Boy Again
A temperance lecturer, who was divoiced from his wife, took tea with a family who had a young son of the most frank and impertinent type. During a lull iv the conversation, this youth, who had heard his parents make comments upon the divorce of the lecturer from his wife, hlurted out : '• Mr Comma, w here's your wife?" The quest-ion was so loudl} 7 put and go abrupt that the man hadn't the piesenee of mind to tell the boy he w;is impudent, but, flushed and coughing 1 , he replied : I_ .-.-,,l| v _l don't know." '»]>; or-fd, mother says," continued the ofj-t.u.-s youngster. " Ei— well— yer," couched the embm rassed " Good Templar." "f'luKtt ili«- divorce ." shouted the son and lieii ; " what if you don't agv-'* 1 ? Fijiiit it out, the way father i
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 114, 2 April 1887, Page 4
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137The Small Boy Again Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 114, 2 April 1887, Page 4
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