AN AWFUL WARNING.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 26, 8 November 1901, Page 4

AN AWFUL WARNING.

A man was too stingy to '‘pay for a newspaper, and as he could not get along without it he sent his little boy to borrow a paper of his neighbour. In his haste the boy ran over a fourdollar stand of bees, and in ten minutes looked like a warty summer .squash. ITis cries reached his father who ran to his assistance, and failing to notice a barbed - wire fence, ran into it. breaking it down, cutting a. handful of flesh from his anatomy, and ruining a four-dollar pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and got into the cornfield and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, the wife ran, upset a four-gallon churn full of rich cream into a basket of kittens, drowning the flock. In the hurry she dropped a seven-dollar set of false teeth. The baby being left alone, crawled through the spilled cream and into the parlour, ruining a brand new 20-dollar carpet. .During the excitement the eldest daughter ran away with the hired man, the dog broke up eleven sitting hens, and the calves got out and chewed the tails off four shirts. All this happened throtigh the downright stinginess of one-man;