IT WAS UP TO THE BACHELOR

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2086, 11 January 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)

IT WAS UP TO THE BACHELOR

\n old bachelor, who liver, in tho suburbs of a Southern city, hires a colored man to clean up his room, fill tho lamp, and perform like services.; : A few days ago the colored domestic, who had'been using his employer’s blacking, said: “Boss, our blackin am done out.-’ “What do you mean by saying ‘our blacking’?” growled the sordid cm-, plover; “everything belongs to me. ]" want you to understand that nothing belongs to you.” . Tho terrified dirky apologized and; promised to remember. On the fol- ' low in" Sundav the bachelor happened - to meet the ’colored menial, accompanied by a chocolate-colored female pushing a baby-carriage. -M-at-^5 “Was that your babv in tlm. carrh.ro f” ho asked next day :P his-,; lions© where he was quito "5 number of liis friends. “No. boss, dat’s lint our chile :dat- s vour chile. I’se nebber gwne to cay miffin’ belongs to me no mooli.' “ NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. .>£ Early in the morning session, when the pujiils were feeling bright and huppv. the teacher thought it a goad.; plan to giro them sentences +o correct, both’ as to grammar and sense. She accordingly wrote on the blackboard: 1 ‘The hen lias four legs. He done it.” Thoughtful httilc Ignatius. at the—foot of tTi"> r+mSjMpon-: doled deeply, and at the ondoTHln} fifteen minutes’ time allowed forcer-, ruction ho wrote: “He didn’t uonei it: Goil done it.” } A BUCOLIC SONG. I have a little cottage with the rosgsl climbing round, -“j And a pretty little garden where thq lilossoms all abound; j The sky is brightest azure now and I aril also blue, / For while the dew is falling there ....tho. rent a-falling due.