THOSE EGGS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 83, 17 June 1881, Page 4

THOSE EGGS.

.A Detroit grocer was the other day | • hnngri\y s?totingfor bis clerk to re- ' turn from dinner, and, give him a chance at his noonday,>nieal, when a boycao^ajnto his stoi-e with a basket in his hand andf 1 said : " I seed a boy grab up this 'ere basket from the door and.r.rjajaj and I ian, after him and madf b,im give it up." ■ f/My lad, you are an honest boy." ?.* Tes, sir." < " A||A M : i<>Q> like au honest bpy." " Yes, sir." « Andgood boys should always be encouraged. In a, box in the bacb room there aie eight dozen eggs. ¥ou> triay/ttfke them home >to your mother and ke9p the basket." The grocer had been saving those eggs for days, and weeks to reward someone. In rewarding a good boy he also got eight dozen bad eggs carried deft of the neighborhood free of cost, 'aba . r he chudkled a little ohuck as he walked homewards. The afternoon iwaned^rnight came and went, and once more the grocer went to fan dinner./, When he returned he wat^iokinghis teeth and wearing a ood^laoeht smile. His eye caught a basketf of eight dozen eggs as lie en • tered thestore,and he queried i " Been of these'Trdril a farmer's boy," replied the <jlft^k, hakA&hW^Y *$* a W . ue cap on?" « 7 Yes/ f "Xwp -front teeth out i" " s*}• ii^tSSs wmiw down and ejjgmjyjwd) the eggs. The shells^d^ee^^wh^ficie^n. but"the ; 7 A were the sain* yeggs' that /good boy* had lagged ho'ire the_c)ajr before.