THE BOYS WISH.
The other night, about 10 o’clock, a policeman, passing along a street, came upon a boy who was walking up and down in front of a house. He asked the lad if he lived there, and why he did not go in, whereupon the youngster replied, “Dad’s .waiting for me with a whip.” “ Going to dust your jacket, is he V “ That’s the programme,” sighed the boy, “unless I can think up something to unfasten his mind from the subject. If I could rush in and tell him a big fire was raging down town, or that the mayor was dead, or some such thing, he’d be taken by surprise, and forget all about dressing me down." “ And you can’t think of .anything else!” “Hot a thing. I wish the old gent was in the habit of stealing his wood, getting into the House of Correction, ox* doing some-' thing that would give me a hold on him, hut he’s straighter than an alder, man’s elbow.”—Detroit Free’ Press.
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Kumara Times, Issue 518, 25 May 1878, Page 2
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