One Slip Begets Another

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 May 1915, Page 3

One Slip Begets Another

A small boy was asked to take dinner tit the home of a distinguished professor. The lad's mother, in fear lest lie should commit some breach of etiquette, gave him repeated directions as to what he should and should not do. Upon his return from the great occasion, the mother's first question was, "Harold, did you get along at the table all right?" "Oh, yes, mamma, well enough." "\ou're sure you didn't do anything that was not perfectly polite and gentlemanly ?" "Why, no—nothing to speak of." "Then something did happen. What was it?" "But, 1 fixed it all right, mamma." "Tell mo at once." "Why, I got along pretty right until tho meat came, but while I was trying to cut mine it slipped off on to the floor. But I made it all right." "What did you do?" "Oh, I just said, sort oi carelessly, 'That's always the way with tough meat.' "