Her Only Saucepan.
! A vigorous-looking woman got into a ctr and pushed a small boy down on the seat. The other people in the- car noticed that the boy ha<l his head completely hidden by a tight-fitting saucepan, and their bym- , patbising inquiries elicited the fact that his unhappy mother was taking the equally unhappy youth to the " 'orspital" to *" aye it orf.' "But how did he get it on his heaJ?" asked a passenger. " 'E wa- piayjn' at bein' 'Beresford,' an.* 'c wanted a 'elmet, so 'c took the sorse* pan," said the mother. "It'll be a bad job for him," 6aid anothrv passenger. I "It's a sight wuss fer me," retorted tlui mother ; "it's the only sorsepan we've got, and there's my breakfast in it."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 75
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127Her Only Saucepan. Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 75
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