A NAUGHTY LITTLE BOY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3729, 8 December 1906, Page 4

A NAUGHTY LITTLE BOY.

Mrs Mortimer Rutherford, of River Side Drive, in despair _ of breaking her little boy of swearing at last threatened that the next time he used a bad word she would banish him from home. The very next day he exploded a big, big D. “I am very sorry, Wilbur,” said Mrs Rutherford ; “but I have never broken my word to you, so now you must leave home.” Nancy packed the child’s little toy suit-case, and he, without a whimper, but with round wondering eyes, kissed bis mamma and departed. Mrs Rutherford’s eyes were dim as she watched her baby boy in his blue travelling-suit sturdily trudging away, without one faltering, backward glance. A long way off, Wilbur set his burden on the ground, and himself perched solemnly on the kerb, chin in hands, in deep meditation. The spectacle was too much for the fond mother - heart. Very quietly mamma sped down the Drive, and tiptoed up behind Master, Wilbur. As she was hovering, on the very point of surprising him with tearful kisses, a pompous old man appeared. “Child,” he said ; “child, will you—hum—tell me where Mr Millinken lives ? ” Ah ! Now mamma’s little man would show his excellent breeding. Wilbur raised his solemn blue eyes, and regarded the pompous man coldly.

“You go to Blazes,” he said calmly; “I have troubles of my own.”