TOO GOOD A CHANCE TO LOSE.
When a grocer's boy yesterday deli--.vered a basket- full of packages to a lady on Columbia- Street, -her quick eye , detected the fact that she had received only eleven oranges m place of a dozen. " Young man, you ate that other-orange as you came along !" she exclaimed as she .recounted the number. " Never — never !'\He earnestly replied. " Well, •where is it then?" "Perhaps they counted wrong ma'am." "Well, I'll go right back with you and see." "I didn't eat the orange," he began, after a little reflection, " but I'll tell you how it was. Down here, about two blocks, I saw an old chap out m his garden with his hat hanging on a plum tree as he sawed at a limb. Hewasthebaldheadedest man I ever saw, ma'am." "Well,- what has that to do, .with the orange?" she asked. "Lots, ma'am — -.heaps. If you was a boy.-and you saw -such a head, and you knew you*' could hit it and get away all right, wouldn't you put an orange agin it ?" "It - was very wicked," she softly answered. " Well, 1 dunno but 'twas : but if you'd seen that old gent catch his legs arid make a jump,- and if you'd heard him yell out as he came down and grabbled for his hat, why.'Warn you d lend me another orange to, pop at «ome one as- 1 go back V*
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 25 July 1877, Page 3
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