BAD FOR JOHNNY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 717, 31 October 1914, Page 3

BAD FOR JOHNNY.

* Little Johnny Squildig spoiled what otherwise would have been a pleas a nt call last evening, and it is feared established a deadly hatred between the Squildig- and Snaggs households. Mr. and Mrs. Snaggs had "just dropped in,", and the.conversation went the full range of the weather arid. the fashions and the health of the babies of the neighborhood between the women, while the men exhausted the possibilities of the football season,; and had got well into politics, when Johnny who found the talk uninteresting, asked Mr. Snaggs if he had brought his fiddle with-him. "My fiddle," replied Snaggs, in sur> prise. "What fiddle?" "Why, your second fiddle." "My second fiddle? Why, Johnny, I am not a musician. I have no fiddle/ I don't play.'.' "But papa says you do," -persisted Johnny. "Johnny, I think you had better go upstairs to bed,," said his papa. "Yes, it's quite time," added Mrs. Squildig. "Little folks should be seen, but not heard." But Johnny was not to be gagged in this style. He went on:— "Papa says you play second fiddle in youi* house, and I think you might have brought it with you." . , - Then Johnny .was marched but of the room by his papa, and his manima followed to assist in the. subsequent exercises, while the Snaggses put on thenthings and walked solemnly home with heads unusually erect and a feeling of unrest in their bosoms.