A CUTE LITTLE CUSTOMER WHO ALMOST PARALYZED A BARBER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

A CUTE LITTLE CUSTOMER WHO ALMOST PARALYZED A BARBER.

(}:•;: :'• ; : Wjllrins has a little 5-year-old .1 ••'•■"•>•■■>: tjywbosn has bsen vauquished one v., .. :is most accomplished linguists — other- wise one of Lowell's most nkilled tnnsorial artist*. She was taken dowa to have her hair cut tho other day and ©pened lire upon the oflieiating barber with his own ammunition m the manner following, to-wit : " Go pitty well to-day ?" " Yes, little girl, I'm pretty well." " Oo mamma well ?" " Yes, my mother's pretty well." (Snip.) •' Oo papa well ?" " Yo.<, pretty well." (Snip, snip.) " Oo dress yourself ?" " Oh, yes, I dres3 myself." (Snip.) " Oo wash oo own face ?" .. "Eh ? Oh, ye 3, of course." (Gouge.) " Oo fix oo own hair ?" " Yes, yes." (Snip, snip, snip— rapidly.) " Oo sew Sundays?" " "Why, no, I don't sew Sundays." (Pause). "Oo sit right down and read?" . . . ., " Yes." (Snip, snip, snip— nervously). " Can oo read ?" ,] " Yes." (Nearly takes off one ear). .' : " Oo been to school ?" " Well, yas— some time ago." (Snip, snip). " Is o?; a man ?" . ..../ " Ye-es." (Thinks some of infanticide). " Does oo mamma let oo Bmoke ?" " Sometimes." (Tries to control a cowlick). "When?" • ,:, "When she doesn't know it." (Snip). " When don't she kn"» U?" V r~-~ ... "-4\H»em4re i^wiH looking." (TrißßtorSnrilßjr"ls oo all through ?" ; . ■ " Yes ; all through." (Believed). " Goo-by 1 I'll come again sometime — wont I ?" "Do!" (Sinks exhausted). : And the little bud of promise toddled out ol the door without the baffled barber having asked her if she wouldn't have a sea-foam or a bottle of hair tonic. — Lowell Citizen.-