A SAD WARNING

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2684, 17 January 1924, Page 4

A SAD WARNING

A woman who was 100 economical to subscribe to the paper, says an American exchange, sent her little son to borrow a copy taken by her neighbour. In bis haste the boy ran over a 20/- stand of bees, and in ten minutes was like a warty summer squash. His cries reached his father, who ran to his assistance, and failing to notice n barbed wire fence, van into it, breaking it down, cutting a handful of flesh from bis anafoniv and milling a fivo-dollnr pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the j gap in the fence and got into the cornfield and killed herself eating corn. Hearing the racket, the mother ran, upsetting a four-gallon churn of rich cream into a basket of kittens, drowning the whole litter. Tn her hurry she dropped and broke, past all hope of mending, a I five-pound set of false teeth. Ihe baby, left alone, crawled through I the spilled cream and into the parlour, mining a four-pound carpet. During the excitement the eldest daughter ran away with the hired man, the dog broke up eleven sitting liens, and the calves got out and chewed the tails off four new shirts. Moral: In the long run we pay for what we try to get for aoI thing.