BAD FOR JOHNNY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 6

BAD FOR JOHNNY.

Little Johnny Squildig spoiled what otherwise would have been a pleasant call last evening, and it is foared ostablished a deadly hatred between tho Squildig and Snaggs households. Mr. and Mrs. Snaggs had "just dropped in," and the conversation went tho full range of tho weather and tho fashions and the health of tho babies of the neighborhood between the women, whilo the men exhausted tho possibilities of tho football season, and had got well into politics, when Johnny who ..found tho talk uninteresting, asked Mr. Snaggs if ho had brought hia fiddle with him. "My fiddle," replied Snaggs, in aurprise. "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," addod Mrs. Squildig. "Little folks should bo seen, but not heard." But Jolinny was not to bo gagged in this style. He went on:— "Papa says you play second fiddle in your house, and I think you might have brought it with you." Then Johnny was marched out of the room by his papa, and his mamma followed to assist in the subsequent exercises, while the Snaggses put on their things and walked solemnly homo with heads unusually erect and a feeling of unrest in thoir bosoms.